Mini-review: Expectations for supersymmetry from the string landscape

Understand

In this mini-review, we summarize a variety of findings pertaining to consequences of the landscape of string theory for supersymmetry (SUSY) phenomenology.

• The idea is to adopt the MSSM as the most parsimonious 4-d low energy EFT after string compactification but where the scale of SUSY breaking is as yet undetermined.
• A power-law landscape draw to large soft terms is tempered by the requirement that the derived value of the weak scale lie within the anthropic window of Agrawal {\it et al.} (ABDS).
• Such a set-up predicts a light Higgs mass m_h~ 125 GeV with sparticles generally beyond LHC bounds.