BICEP2, the Higgs Mass and the SUSY-breaking Scale
Abstract
Recent BICEP2 results on CMB polarisation B-modes suggest a high value for the inflation scale V01/4 1016 GeV, giving experimental evidence for a physical scale in between the EW scale and the Planck mass. We propose that this new high scale could be interpreted as evidence for a high SUSY breaking scale Mss 1012-1013 GeV. We show that such a large value for Mss is consistent with a Higgs mass around 126 GeV. We briefly discuss some possible particle physics implications of this assumption.
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