What can the Higgs tell us about UV physics?
Alexander K Knochel
TL;DR
This paper explores how the Higgs boson mass and properties can provide insights into high-energy physics beyond the Standard Model, focusing on string-inspired models with intermediate scale supersymmetry.
Contribution
It introduces a class of stringy models with intermediate scale SUSY linking the Higgs mass to Higgs sector symmetries and discusses their implications for UV physics, unification, and dark matter.
Findings
Hints of new physics above 10^8 GeV scale
Stringy models relate Higgs mass to Higgs sector symmetries
Discussion of radiative corrections and UV stability
Abstract
After the discovery of a Higgs-like boson with a mass of m~125 GeV at the LHC, we can now attempt to draw conclusions about physics beyond the Standard Model. I argue that there are several hints towards new physics at intermediate scales > 10^8 GeV. I review a class of stringy models with intermediate scale SUSY which relate the observed Higgs mass to symmetries of the Higgs sector. I then discuss radiative corrections to m_h, unification, dark matter and the possibility of classically unstable UV completions in these models.
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