BICEP2, the Higgs mass and the SUSY-breaking scale

2014/03/31 by Luis E. Ibáñez, Luis E. Ibanez, Irene Valenzuela · 20 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Cosmic microwave background #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Higgs boson #Inflation (cosmology) #Mathematics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Planck mass #Planck scale #Quantum mechanics #Scale (ratio) #Statistics #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #Value (mathematics) #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.077

published in Physics Letters B 734, 354-357 (Elsevier BV) · 5 pages, 1 figure. v2: references added

arxiv created 2014/04/25 · openalex publication_date 2014/06/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Recent BICEP2 results on CMB polarisation B-modes suggest a high value for the inflation scale V₀^1/4 ≃ 10¹⁶ GeV, giving experimental evidence for a physical scale in between the EW scale and the Planck mass. We propose that this new high scale could be interpreted as evidence for a high SUSY breaking scale M_ss≃ 10¹²-10¹³ GeV. We show that such a large value for M_ss is consistent with a Higgs mass around 126 GeV. We briefly discuss some possible particle physics implications of this assumption.

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