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hep-ph2011

Probing Isospin-Violating Dark Matter

Jason Kumar

We discuss experimental probes of isospin-violating dark matter (IVDM), including direct and indirect detection strategies. We point out the important role which IVDM plays in unde…

hep-ph2011★ 15 cited

A model of superluminal neutrinos

D. Marfatia, H. Päs, S. Pakvasa +1

Motivated by the tentative observation of superluminal neutrinos by the OPERA experiment, we present a model of active-sterile neutrino oscillations in which sterile neutrinos are…

hep-ph2011★ 9 cited

LHC discovery potential for supersymmetry with \sqrt{s}=7 TeV and 5-30 fb^{-1}

Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Andre Lessa +1

We extend our earlier results delineating the supersymmetry (SUSY) reach of the CERN Large Hadron Collider operating at a centre-of-mass energy \sqrt{s}=7 TeV to integrated luminos…

hep-ph2011★ 31 cited

Isospin-Violating Dark Matter in the Sun

Yu Gao, Jason Kumar, Danny Marfatia

We consider the prospects for studying spin-independent isospin-violating dark matter-nucleon interactions with neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the Sun, with a focus on…

hep-ph2011★ 7 cited

Large Jet Multiplicities and New Physics at the LHC

Joseph Bramante, Jason Kumar, Brooks Thomas

A broad class of scenarios for new physics involving additional strongly-interacting fields generically predicts signatures at hadron colliders which consist solely of large number…

hep-ph2011★ 8 cited

Nonstandard Higgs Decays and Dark Matter in the E6SSM

J. P. Hall, S. F. King, R. Nevzorov +2

We study the decays of the lightest Higgs boson within the exceptional supersymmetric (SUSY) standard model (E6SSM). The E6SSM predicts three families of Higgs-like doublets plus t…

hep-ph2011★ 12 cited

Higher Representations and Multi-Jet Resonances at the LHC

Jason Kumar, Arvind Rajaraman, Brooks Thomas

The CMS collaboration has recently conducted a search for trijet resonances in multi-jet events at the LHC. Motivated in part by this analysis, we examine the phenomenology of exot…

hep-ph2011★ 12 cited

B's with Direct Decays: Tevatron and LHC Discovery Prospects in the b\bar{b}+MET Channel

Johan Alwall, Jonathan L. Feng, Jason Kumar +1

We explore the discovery prospects for B'\bar{B}' pair production followed by direct decays B'->bX, where B' is a new quark and X is a long-lived neutral particle. We develop optim…

hep-ph2011★ 121 cited

Dynamical Dark Matter: II. An Explicit Model

Keith R. Dienes, Brooks Thomas

In a recent paper (arXiv:1106.4546), we introduced "dynamical dark matter," a new framework for dark-matter physics, and outlined its underlying theoretical principles and phenomen…

hep-ph2011★ 200 cited

Dynamical Dark Matter: I. Theoretical Overview

Keith R. Dienes, Brooks Thomas

In this paper, we propose a new framework for dark-matter physics. Rather than focus on one or more stable dark-matter particles, we instead consider a multi-component framework in…

hep-ph2011★ 8 cited

Collider Searches for Fermiophobic Gauge Bosons

Joseph Bramante, R. S. Hundi, Jason Kumar +2

We explore the phenomenology of an extra U(1) gauge boson which primarily couples to standard model gauge bosons. We classify all possible parity-odd couplings up to dimension 6 op…

hep-ph2011★ 477 cited

Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

Daniele Alves, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Sanjay Arora +92

This document proposes a collection of simplified models relevant to the design of new-physics searches at the LHC and the characterization of their results. Both ATLAS and CMS hav…

hep-ph2011★ 4 cited

Determination of Weak Amplitudes using Bose Symmetry and Dalitz Plots

Rahul Sinha, N. G. Deshpande, Sandip Pakvasa +1

We present a new method using Dalitz plot and Bose symmetry of pions that allows the complete determination of the magnitudes and phases of weak decay amplitudes. We apply the meth…

hep-ph2011★ 52 cited

LHC Signatures of the Constrained Exceptional Supersymmetric Standard Model

P. Athron, S. F. King, D. J. Miller +2

We discuss two striking Large Hadron Collider (LHC) signatures of the constrained version of the exceptional supersymmetric standard model (cE6SSM), based on a universal high energ…

hep-ph2011★ 8 cited

Detection Prospects for Majorana Fermion WIMPless Dark Matter

Keita Fukushima, Jason Kumar, Pearl Sandick

We consider both velocity-dependent and velocity-independent contributions to spin-dependent (SD) and spin-independent (SI) nuclear scattering (including one-loop corrections) of W…

hep-ph2011★ 25 cited

Dark Matter Detection With Electron Neutrinos in Liquid Scintillation Detectors

Jason Kumar, John G. Learned, Michinari Sakai +1

We consider the prospects for liquid scintillation experiments (with a focus on KamLAND) to detect the flux of electron neutrinos arising from dark matter annihilation in the core…

hep-ph2011★ 5 cited

Dark Energy density in models with Split Supersymmetry and degenerate vacua

C. Froggatt, R. Nevzorov, H. B. Nielsen

In N=1 supergravity supersymmetric (SUSY) and non-supersymmetric Minkowski vacua originating in the hidden sector can be degenerate. In the supersymmetric phase in flat Minkowski s…

hep-ph2011★ 2 cited

Determining the squark mass at the LHC

Vernon Barger, Yu Gao, Andre Lessa +1

We propose a new way to determine the squark mass based on the shape of di-jet invariant mass distribution of supersymmetry (SUSY) di-jet events at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).…

hep-ph2011★ 273 cited

Isospin-Violating Dark Matter

Jonathan L. Feng, Jason Kumar, Danny Marfatia +1

Searches for dark matter scattering off nuclei are typically compared assuming that the dark matter's spin-independent couplings are identical for protons and neutrons. This assump…

hep-ph2011★ 27 cited

Relating B_s Mixing and B_s -> mu+mu- with New Physics

Eugene Golowich, JoAnne Hewett, Sandip Pakvasa +2

We perform a study of the Standard Model (SM) fit to the mixing quantities , and in order to bound contributions of New Physics to mixing. We th…