BICEP2, the Higgs mass and the SUSY-breaking scale

Recent BICEP2 results on CMB polarisation B-modes suggest a high value for the inflation scale V-0(1/4) similar or equal to 10(16) GeV, giving experimental evidence for a physical scale in between the EW scale and the Planck mass. We propose that this new high scale could be interpreted as evidence for a high SUSY breaking scale with MSSM sparticles with masses of order M-ss similar or equal to 10(12)-10(13) GeV. We show that such a large value for M-ss is consistent with a Higgs mass around 126 GeV. We briefly discuss some possible particle physics implications of this assumption. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license