Post LHC8 SUSY benchmark points for ILC physics

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We re-evaluate prospects for supersymmetry at the proposed International Linear e+e- Collider (ILC) in light of the first two years of serious data taking at LHC: LHC7 with 5 fb⁻¹ of pp collisions at sqrts=7 TeV and LHC8 with 20 fb⁻¹ at √s=8 TeV. Strong new limits from LHC8 SUSY searches, along with the discovery of a Higgs boson with mₕ 125 GeV, suggest a paradigm shift from previously popular models to ones with new and compelling signatures. After a review of the current status of supersymmetry, we present a variety of new ILC benchmark models, including: natural SUSY, radiatively-driven natural SUSY (RNS), NUHM2 with low mₐ, a focus point case from mSUGRA/CMSSM, non-universal gaugino mass (NUGM) model, stau-coannihilation, Kallosh-Linde/spread SUSY model, mixed gauge-gravity mediation, normal scalar mass hierarchy (NMH), and one example with the recently discovered Higgs boson being the heavy CP-even state H. While all these models at present elude the latest LHC8 limits, they do offer intriguing case study possibilities for ILC operating at √s 0.25-1 TeV. The benchmark points also present a view of the widely diverse SUSY phenomena which might still be expected in the post LHC8 era at both LHC and ILC.