The More Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Abstract

Effective Supersymmetry is presented as a theory of physics above the electroweak scale which has significant theoretical advantages over both the standard model and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard model (MSSM). The theory is supersymmetric at short distances but differs significantly from the MSSM: there is no supersymmetric CP problem and flavor changing neutral currents and lepton flavor violation are suppressed without assuming squark and slepton universality. There is a new physics scale 5--20 TeV which sets the mass of the first two sparticle families. Effective Supersymmetry can be implemented with automatic suppression of baryon and lepton number violation and a dynamically generated $\mu$ term, while maintaining naturalness in the Higgs sector. There are implications for new particle searches, flavor and CP violation experiments, as well as for the construction of theories of flavor and dynamical supersymmetry breaking.