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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…