Lagrangian whose mass parameters are typically of order the electroweak scale but otherwise not special or constrained." - Meaning and context.">
(2000), "The Supersymmetry Soft-breaking Lagrangian — Where Experiment and String Theory Meet", arXiv preprint hep-ph/0008190 (quote on pp. 2–3)
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There are strong reasons to expect that low energy supersymmetry is the probable outcome of experimental and theoretical progress, and that it will soon be directly experimentally confirmed. By low energy, we mean (softly) broken supersymmetry with an effective soft Lagrangian whose mass parameters are typically of order the electroweak scale but otherwise not special or constrained.

— Gordon L. Kane

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Gordon L. Kane

About Gordon L. Kane

Gordon Leon Kane (born 19 January 1937) is an American theoretical physicist and winner of the 2017 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.