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Argon as the test of two interpretations of the LZ 248 keV recoil
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger
Argon decides what the LZ 248 keV recoil is. Read as an excited pseudo-Dirac state dropping to its ground state, the event predicts a nuclear-recoil line in argon at |δ|\,m_χ/(m_χ+…
Exothermic dark matter and the 248 keV nuclear recoil in LUX-ZEPLIN
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger
The single 248-keV nuclear-recoil candidate reported by LZ is reproduced by dark matter that downscatters, with the relic in the excited state of a pseudo-Dirac pair and a splittin…
Cosmological moduli problem ameliorated by decaying WIMPs
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Robert Wiley Deal
We investigate the cosmological moduli problem (CMP) in the context of supersymmetric models where discrete R-symmetries are used to suppress the mu term, and where mu is regenerat…
Can blind spots save neutralino dark matter in natural supersymmetry models?
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Dibyashree Sengupta
Natural supersymmetry (SUSY) models remain viable even in the face of LHC Run 2 sparticle search limits. However, the LZ experiment has placed strong limits on light higgsino dark…
Serendipitous supersymmetric solution to the strong CP problem
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Dibyashree Sengupta
The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) has several problems: 1. its term must be forbidden, then regenerated at the weak scale, 2. it allows for -parity violating…
Natural SUSY with mixed axion/axino dark matter
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Kairui Zhang
While supersymmetric models provide a solution to the big hierarchy problem, natural SUSY is also allowed by the little hierarchy problem. In supersymmetric models which include th…
pMSSM versus complete models and the excellent prospects for top-squark discovery at HL-LHC
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Kairui Zhang
LHC sparticle search limits are usually performed within the context of simplified models and subsequently interpreted within the 19 parameter phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM) as to h…