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most citedThe Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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hep-ph2012★ 4 cited

On the likely dominance of WIMP annihilation to fermion pair+W/Z (and implication for indirect detection)

Thomas J. Weiler

Arguably, the most popular candidate for Dark Matter (DM) is a massive, stable, Majorana fermion. However, annihilation of Majorana DM to two fermions often features a helicity-sup…

hep-ph2012★ 17 cited

The tight knot spectrum in QCD

Roman V. Buniy, Jason Cantarella, Thomas W. Kephart +1

We model the observed $J^{++}$ mesonic mass spectrum in terms of energies for tightly knotted and linked chromoelectric QCD flux tubes. The data is fit with one and two parameter m…

hep-ph2012★ 58 cited

Sterile Neutrinos and Light Dark Matter Save Each Other

Chiu Man Ho, Robert J. Scherrer

Short baseline neutrino experiments such as LSND and MiniBooNE seem to suggest the existence of light sterile neutrinos. Meanwhile, current cosmic microwave background (CMB) and bi…

hep-ph2012★ 1 cited

An Explicit SU(12) Family and Flavor Unification Model

Carl H. Albright, Robert P. Feger, Thomas W. Kephart

An explicit SUSY SU(12) unification model with three light chiral families is presented which avoids any external flavor symmetries. The hierarchy of quark and lepton masses and mi…

hep-ph2012★ 141 cited

Anapole Dark Matter

Chiu Man Ho, Robert J. Scherrer

We consider dark matter (DM) that interacts with ordinary matter exclusively through an electromagnetic anapole, which is the only allowed electromagnetic form factor for Majorana…

hep-ph2012★ 61 cited

Vector Boson Fusion Processes as a Probe of Supersymmetric Electroweak Sectors at the LHC

Bhaskar Dutta, Alfredo Gurrola, Will Johns +3

Vector boson fusion (VBF) processes offer a promising avenue to study the non-colored sectors of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model at the LHC. A feasibility study for…

hep-ph2012★ 24 cited

Cosmic Neutrino Flavor Ratios with Broken $ν_{μ} - ν_{τ}$ Symmetry

Lingjun Fu, Chiu Man Ho, Thomas J. Weiler

Reactor neutrino experiments have now observed a nonzero value for $θ_{13}$ at $5 σ$ , and global fits to data imply a nonzero value above $10 σ$ . Nonzero values for $θ_{13}$ and/or $…

hep-ph2012★ 10 cited

On Neutrino Flavor States

Chiu Man Ho

We review the issues associated with the construction of neutrino flavor states. We then provide a consistent proof that the flavor states are approximately well-defined only if ne…

hep-ph2012★ 97 cited

Searching for Dark Matter at the LHC with a Mono-Z

Nicole F. Bell, James B. Dent, Ahmad J. Galea +3

We investigate a mono-Z process as a potential dark matter search strategy at the LHC. In this channel a single Z boson recoils against missing transverse momentum, attributed to d…

hep-ph2012★ 6 cited

Three Generations in Minimally Extended Standard Models

Paul H. Frampton, Chiu Man Ho, Thomas W. Kephart

We present a class of minimally extended standard models with the gauge group $S U (3)_{C} \times S U (N)_{L} \times U (1)_{X}$ where for all $N \geq 3$ , anomaly cancelation requires three ge…