A stronger case for superunification post Higgs boson discovery

2017/09/27 by Pran Nath, Raza M. Syed
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boson #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Electroweak interaction #Electroweak scale #Grand Unified Theory #Higgs boson #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Supergravity #Superpartner #Supersymmetry #Unification #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1402-4896/aa9512

25 pages

arxiv created 2017/09/27 · openalex publication_date 2017/11/17 · arxiv updated 2017/12/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

Supersymmetry and more specifically supergravity grand unification allow one to extrapolate physics from the electroweak scale up to the grand unification scale consistent with electroweak data. Here we give a brief overview of their current status and show that the case for supersymmetry is stronger as a result of the Higgs boson discovery with a mass measurement at ∼125 GeV consistent with the supergravity grand unification prediction that the Higgs boson mass lies below 130 GeV. Thus the discovery of the Higgs boson and the measurement of its mass provide a further impetus for the search for sparticles to continue at the current and future colliders.

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