Speaker
Description
No sparticles have been detected yet at LHC and no WIMPs have been
detected at direct/indirect dark matter detection experiments.
And yet I claim the status of SUSY is excellent. Why?
1. Naturalness: old 20th century estimates of naturalness demonstrably
overestimate finetuning by factors up to 10^4. Using the model independent
EW measure, plenty of natural SUSY parameter space is left in models such
as NUHM2-4.
2. A statistical analysis of the string landscape suggests a draw
to large soft terms tempered by the ABDS condition that the weak scale is
not to far from its measured value.
This predicts mh~125 GeV with sparticles typically
(well)-beyond LHC reach.
3. Solving the SUSY mu problem via discrete R-symmetries and the Kim-Nilles
method leads to a PQ solution to the strong CP problem
and the possibility of small RPV wherein all LSPs decay before BBN
leaving axion-only dark matter from SUSY.
After these points, I discuss the most likely avenues towards SUSY
discovery at LHC, especially via soft dileptons from higgsino pair production,
for which ATLAS and CMS seem to have mild excesses in their Run 2 data sample.