Electroweak Precision Physics from Low to High Energies

Abstract

Electroweak precision observables (EWPO) can give valuable information about the last unknown paramter of the Standard Model (SM), the Higgs-boson mass M_H^SM. EWPO can also restrict the parameter space of new physics models (NPM) such as the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We review the respective constraints from the W boson mass, the effective leptonic mixing angle, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and electric dipole moments. Within the MSSM also the lightest Higgs-boson mass, M_h, is discussed as a precision observable. The EWPO, supplemented with B physics observables and astrophysical data can be used to determine indirectly the preferred mass scales of Supersymmetry and M_h.