Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model - Theoretical Motivations

Theoretical Motivations

There are three principal motivations for the MSSM over other theoretical extensions of the Standard Model, namely:

  • Naturalness
  • Gauge coupling unification
  • Dark Matter

These motivations come out without much effort and they are the primary reasons why the MSSM is the leading candidate for a new theory to be discovered at collider experiments such as the Tevatron or the LHC.

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