Aspirations and Prospects for Supersymmetry in Light of LHC Data

by Prof. Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)

Monday 6 Oct 2025, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Sapienza)

Ever since it was realized in the early 1980s that weak scale supersymmetry can stabilize the electroweak symmetry breaking sector of the Standard Model, the hunt for superpartners has been at the forefront of searches for new physics. The non-appearance of supersymmetric particles in LHC has led our community to question whether supersymmetry plays a role in particle physics at the TeV scale. Upon re-examination of the arguments that led to such high expectation for SUSY discovery at the LHC, we discuss why that the absence of direct SUSY signals does not pose any crisis for particle physics. We provide a brief assessment of the prospects for SUSY discovery at the high luminosity LHC, and discuss (future) collider energies needed to comprehensively explore supersymmetry, assuming that supersymmetry plays a role in stabilizing the weak scale even in the presence of very high scale physics such as Grand Unification of gauge interactions.