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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…
Implications of a Stop Sector Signal at the LHC
Aaron Pierce, Bibhushan Shakya
Naturalness arguments suggest that the stop sector is within reach of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We investigate how the observation of a third generation squark signal could…
Naturalness from a Composite Top?
Aaron Pierce, Yue Zhao
We consider a theory with composite top quarks but an elementary Higgs boson. The hierarchy problem can be solved by supplementing TeV scale top compositeness with either supersymm…
Impact of Future Lepton Flavor Violation Measurements in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Sebastian A. R. Ellis, Aaron Pierce
Working within the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model, we compare current bounds from quark flavor changing processes with current and upcoming bounds on lepton f…
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…