2009/07/10 by Radovan Dermíšek, Radovan Dermisek · 32 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Electroweak interaction #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Higgs mechanism #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Spontaneous symmetry breaking #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Symmetry breaking #Technicolor #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732309031466
published in Modern Physics Letters A 24(21), 1631-1648 (World Scientific) · 23 pages, 6 figures; invited review by MPLA
openalex publication_date 2009/07/10 · arxiv created 2009/07/23 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
This review provides an elementary discussion of electroweak symmetry breaking in the minimal and the next-to-minimal supersymmetric models with the focus on the fine-tuning problem — the tension between natural electroweak symmetry breaking and the direct search limit on the Higgs boson mass. Two generic solutions of the fine-tuning problem are discussed in detail: models with unusual Higgs decays; and models with unusual pattern of soft supersymmetry breaking parameters.