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hep-ph2014★ 28 cited

Dark Matter from Late Invisible Decays to/of Gravitinos

Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Bhaskar Dutta, Farinaldo S. Queiroz +2

In this work, we sift a simple supersymmetric framework of late invisible decays to/of the gravitino. We investigate two cases where the gravitino is the lightest supersymmetric pa…

hep-ph2014★ 112 cited

Closing in on singlet scalar dark matter: LUX, invisible Higgs decays and gamma-ray lines

Lei Feng, Stefano Profumo, Lorenzo Ubaldi

We study the implications of the Higgs discovery and of recent results from dark matter searches on real singlet scalar dark matter. The phenomenology of the model is defined by on…

hep-ph2014★ 89 cited

Complementarity Between Non-Standard Higgs Searches and Precision Higgs Measurements in the MSSM

Marcela Carena, Howard E. Haber, Ian Low +2

Precision measurements of the Higgs boson properties at the LHC provide relevant constraints on possible weak-scale extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In the context of the Min…

hep-ph2014★ 10 cited

How alive is constrained SUSY really?

Philip Bechtle, Klaus Desch, Herbert K. Dreiner +8

Constrained supersymmetric models like the CMSSM might look less attractive nowadays because of fine tuning arguments. They also might look less probable in terms of Bayesian stati…

hep-ph2014★ 23 cited

Instanton Effects in Three Flavor QCD

Michael Dine, Patrick Draper, Guido Festuccia

Recently it was shown that in QCD-like theories with , where is the number of light flavors and is the number of colors, there are correlation functions that van…

hep-ph2014★ 98 cited

Leptoquarks, Dark Matter, and Anomalous LHC Events

Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Kuver Sinha, Alessandro Strumia

Leptoquarks with mass in the region of GeV are a possible candidate for the recent excess seen by CMS in the and channels. We discuss models where leptoqua…

hep-ph2014★ 24 cited

Impact of LSP Character on Slepton Reach at the LHC

Jonathan Eckel, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, William Shepherd +1

Searches for supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have significantly constrained the parameter space associated with colored superpartners, whereas the constraints on c…

hep-ph2014★ 79 cited

Connection of , electroweak, dark matter, and collider constraints on 331 models

Chris Kelso, H. N. Long, R. Martinez +1

In this work we compute all contributions to the muon magnetic moment stemming from several 3-3-1 models namely, minimal 331, 331 with right handed neutrinos, 331 with heavy neutra…

hep-ph2014

Hybrid Inflation with Planck Scale Fields

Michael Dine, Laurel Stephenson-Haskins

The BICEP2 observations, if confirmed, point to a high scale of inflation and large field excursions during the inflationary era. Non-compact string moduli spaces are a suggestive…

hep-ph2014★ 239 cited

Singlet-Catalyzed Electroweak Phase Transitions and Precision Higgs Studies

Stefano Profumo, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Carroll L. Wainwright +1

We update the phenomenology of gauge singlet extensions of the Standard Model scalar sector and their implications for the electroweak phase transition. Considering the introductio…

hep-ph2014★ 97 cited

Cosmological Phase Transitions and their Properties in the NMSSM

Jonathan Kozaczuk, Stefano Profumo, Laurel Stephenson Haskins +1

We study cosmological phase transitions in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) in light of the Higgs discovery. We use an effective field theory approach to c…

hep-ph2014★ 16 cited

A Rich Tapestry: Supersymmetric Axions, Dark Radiation, and Inflationary Reheating

Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Kuver Sinha, William Wester

We exploit the complementarity among supersymmetry, inflation, axions, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) to constrain supersymmetric ax…

hep-ph2014★ 30 cited

Searching for Dark Matter at Hadron Colliders

Andrew Askew, Sushil Chauhan, Bjorn Penning +2

Theoretical and experimental techniques employed in dedicated searches for dark matter at hadron colliders are reviewed. Bounds from the 7 and 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the…

hep-ph2014★ 81 cited

Phenomenology of the 3-3-1-1 model

P. V. Dong, D. T. Huong, Farinaldo S. Queiroz +1

We discuss a new SU(3)_C X SU(3)_L X U(1)_X X U(1)_N (3-3-1-1) gauge model that overhauls the theoretical and phenomenological aspects of the known 3-3-1 models. Additionally, we s…

hep-ph2014★ 12 cited

Tagging Boosted Ws with Wavelets

Vikram Rentala, William Shepherd, Tim M. P. Tait

We present a new technique for distinguishing the hadronic decays of boosted heavy particles from QCD backgrounds based on wavelet transforms. As an initial exploration, we illustr…

hep-ph2014★ 5 cited

Gravitino Dark Matter and Flavor Symmetries

Angelo Monteux, Eric Carlson, Jonathan Cornell

In supersymmetric theories without R-parity, the gravitino can play the role of a decaying Dark Matter candidate without the problem of late NLSP decays affecting Big Bang Nucleosy…

hep-ph2014★ 161 cited

The Poker Face of the Majoron Dark Matter Model: LUX to keV Line

Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Kuver Sinha

We study the viability of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons (Majorons) arising in see-saw models as dark matter candidates. Interestingly the stability of the Majoron as dark matter is…

hep-ph2014★ 114 cited

The Effective Hooperon

Alexandre Alves, Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz +1

We explore the possibility of explaining a gamma-ray excess in the Galactic Center, originally pointed out by Hooper, collaborators, and other groups, in an effective field theory…

hep-ph2014★ 129 cited

New Physics Contributions to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment: A Numerical Code

Farinaldo S. Queiroz, William Shepherd

We consider the contributions of individual new particles to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, utilizing the generic framework of simplified models. We also present analyt…

hep-ph2014★ 1 cited

Cosmological SUSY Breaking and the Pyramid Schemes

T. Banks

I review the ideas of holographic space-time (HST), Cosmological SUSY breaking (CSB), and the Pyramid Schemes, which are the only known models of Tera-scale physics consistent with…

hep-ph2014★ 45 cited

Excluding the Light Dark Matter Window of a 331 Model Using LHC and Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

D. Cogollo, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Farinaldo S. Queiroz +1

We sift the impact of the recent Higgs precise measurements, and recent dark matter direct detection results, on the dark sector of an electroweak extension of the Standard Model t…

hep-ph2014★ 15 cited

Dark Matter in Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions with a Stable Vacuum and the "Right" Higgs

Jonathan M. Cornell, Stefano Profumo, William Shepherd

The recent discovery of a Higgs boson with mass of about 125 GeV, along with its striking similarity to the prediction from the Standard Model, informs and constrains many models o…

hep-ph2014★ 8 cited

GeV WIMPs scattering off of OH impurities cannot explain the DAMA signal

Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz

In the presence of OH impurities in the DAMA crystals, GeV-scale WIMPs elastically scattering off of hydrogen nuclei with a spin independent cross section of $\sim 10^{-33}\ {\rm c…

hep-ph2014★ 68 cited

Antihelium from Dark Matter

Eric Carlson, Adam Coogan, Tim Linden +3

Cosmic-ray anti-nuclei provide a promising discovery channel for the indirect detection of particle dark matter. Hadron showers produced by the pair-annihilation or decay of Galact…