Supersymmetric Higgs and Radiative Electroweak breaking

Abstract

We review the mechanism of radiative electroweak symmetry breaking taking place in SUSY versions of the standard model. We further discuss different proposals for the origin of SUSY-breaking and the corresponding induced SUSY-breaking soft terms. Several proposals for the understanding of the little hierarchy problem are critically discussed.

Comments: To be published in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences