The State of Supersymmetry after Run I of the LHC

Abstract

In these lectures I survey the state of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model in light of data from the first run of the LHC. After assessing pre-LHC expectations based on principles of naturalness and parsimony, I review the landscape of direct and indirect search limits at the LHC, including the implications of the observed Higgs mass and couplings. Finally, I survey several broad classes of supersymmetric models that are consistent with current data and enumerate the most promising search strategies and model-building directions for the future.

Comments: Lectures delivered at the training week of the GGI workshop "Beyond the Standard Model after the first run of the LHC." 72 pages, 28 figures. v2: Minor typos corrected, searches updated