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Higgs Inflation and the Electroweak Gauge Sector
Stephon Alexander, Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski, Humberto Gilmer +1
We introduce a new method that allows for the Higgs to be the inflaton. That is, we let the Higgs be a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone (pNG) boson of a global coset symmetry that spon…
The -axion and -axiverse of dark QCD
Stephon Alexander, Humberto Gilmer, Tucker Manton +1
Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are a prominent dark matter candidate, drawing motivation in part from the axiverse of string theory. Axion-like particles can also arise as…
Towards A Direct Detection of the Spin of Dark Matter
Leah Jenks, Konstantinos Koutrolikos, Evan McDonough +2
We investigate the contribution of higher spin particles in the signal of direct detection experiments searching for dark matter. We consider a bosonic or fermionic higher spin dar…
Inflation and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Stephon Alexander
We present a model of Cosmological Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (CEWSB), where a Higgs-like field and a cosmological background of weak boson gauge fields interact with gravity to…
Chern-Simons Gravity and Neutrino Self-Interactions
Stephon Alexander, Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski
Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity (dCS) is a four-dimensional parity-violating extension of general relativity. Current models predict the effect of this extension to be negligible du…
Higher Spin Dark Matter
Stephon Alexander, Leah Jenks, Evan McDonough
Little is known about dark matter beyond the fact that it does not interact with the standard model or itself, or else does so incredibly weakly. A natural candidate, given the his…