Metastable SUSY Breaking - Predicting the Fate of the Universe

Understand

The possibility that supersymmetry (SUSY) could be broken in a metastable vacuum has recently attracted renewed interest.

• In these proceedings we will argue that metastability is an attractive and testable scenario.
• The recent developments were triggered by the presentation of a simple and calculable model of metastable SUSY breaking by Intriligator, Seiberg and Shih (ISS), which we will briefly review.
• One of the main questions raised by metastability is, why did the universe end up in this vacuum.