Exciting Implications of LHC Higgs Boson Data

TL;DR

The paper interprets LHC Higgs data as supporting supersymmetry and string theory frameworks, providing clues for physics beyond the Standard Model and suggesting a consistent ultraviolet completion.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive analysis of Higgs data indicating a supersymmetric two-doublet model and links it to string/M theory with a de Sitter vacuum.

Findings

Data supports a supersymmetric two-doublet decoupling theory

Hierarchy problem addressed by TeV scale supersymmetry

Implications point toward a string/M theory with a de Sitter vacuum

Abstract

Naively, the LHC Higgs boson looks like a Standard Model Higgs boson, with no guidance to physics beyond the Standard Model, as has often been remarked. The data show that what was discovered is the true Higgs boson. If one includes the full information available, experimental and theoretical, there are actually four significant clues implied by data. They point toward a supersymmetric two-doublet decoupling theory, and a hierarchy problem solution via TeV scale supersymmetry. That in turn suggests an underlying compactified string/M theory with a de Sitter vacuum, so we can be confident that the low scale model has an ultraviolet completion.