  Soft supersymmetry breaking appears in the weak-scale effective action but is
usually generated at higher scales. For these models the structure of the
renormalization group evolution down to the electroweak scale leaves only part
of the squark-gluino and slepton-gaugino mass planes accessible. Our
observations divide these physical mass planes into three wedges: the first can
be reached by all models of high-scale breaking; the second can only be
populated by models with a low mediation scale; in the third wedge squarks and
gluinos would have to be described by an exotic theory. All usual benchmark
points reside in the first wedge, even though an LHC discovery in the third
wedge would arguably be the most exciting outcome.
