Understanding SUSY limits from LEP

Abstract

LEP results have constrained heavily the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, while providing hints for light Higgs boson and for ``SUSY-assisted'' gauge couling unification. In this paper the results obtained at LEP within two scenarios, the gravity-mediated MSSM framework and the minimal SUGRA scenario are presented. Model-dependence and coverage of LEP results is discussed.

Comments: Prepared for 3nd International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Beyond the Desert 02, Oulu, Finland, 2-7 June 2002