Implications of SUSY Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Abstract

I discuss some essential features of the electroweak hierarchy problem and the ensuing motivation for weak-scale supersymmetry. Taking the hierarchy problem seriously, null results in searches for SUSY at the LHC favor specific regions of SUSY parameter space. More broadly, they suggest investigating a variety of alternative approaches to the hierarchy problem with diverse experimental signatures.

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures; plenary talk presented at XXVIIth Rencontres de Blois, France, 31 May - 5 June 2015