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Higgs-photon resonances
Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Patrick J. Fox, John Kearney
We study models that produce a Higgs boson plus photon () resonance at the LHC. When the resonance is a boson, decays to occur at one loop. If the boson co…
boson mediated dark matter beyond the effective theory
John Kearney, Nicholas Orlofsky, Aaron Pierce
Direct detection bounds are beginning to constrain a very simple model of weakly interacting dark matter---a Majorana fermion with a coupling to the boson. In a particularly st…
Spacetime Dynamics of a Higgs Vacuum Instability During Inflation
William E. East, John Kearney, Bibhushan Shakya +2
A remarkable prediction of the Standard Model is that, in the absence of corrections lifting the energy density, the Higgs potential becomes negative at large field values. If the…
Multi-step production of a diphoton resonance
Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Patrick J. Fox, John Kearney
Among the questions that would be raised by the observation of a new resonance at the LHC, particularly pressing are those concerning the production mechanism: What is the initial…
Tadpole-Induced Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and pNGB Higgs Models
Roni Harnik, Kiel Howe, John Kearney
We investigate induced electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) in models in which the Higgs is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB). In pNGB Higgs models, Higgs properties and precis…
High-Scale Axions without Isocurvature from Inflationary Dynamics
John Kearney, Nicholas Orlofsky, Aaron Pierce
Observable primordial tensor modes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) would point to a high scale of inflation . If the scale of Peccei-Quinn (PQ) breaking is gr…