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Light Dark Matter in Superfluid Helium: Detection with Multi-excitation Production
Simon Knapen, Tongyan Lin, Kathryn M. Zurek
We examine in depth a recent proposal to utilize superfluid helium for direct detection of sub-MeV mass dark matter. For sub-keV recoil energies, nuclear scattering events in liqui…
125 GeV Higgs from Tree-Level -terms
Aria Basirnia, Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic, Simon Knapen +1
We present a new mechanism to generate large -terms at tree-level in the MSSM through the use of superpotential operators. The mechanism trivially resolves the problem w…
The Orbifold Higgs
Nathaniel Craig, Simon Knapen, Pietro Longhi
We introduce and systematically study an expansive class of "orbifold Higgs" theories in which the weak scale is protected by accidental symmetries arising from the orbifold reduct…
Neutral Naturalness from the Orbifold Higgs
Nathaniel Craig, Simon Knapen, Pietro Longhi
We present a general class of natural theories in which the Higgs is a pseudo-goldstone boson in an orbifolded gauge theory. The symmetry protecting the Higgs at low energies is an…