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Kansas State Institutional Dairy Heards 22nd Annual Report
A large report on the 14 heards assessed by the Sunflower Testing Program in July 1, 1940-June 30, 1941.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/buildings/1220/thumbnail.jp
SUSY backgrounds to Standard Model calibration processes at the LHC
One of the first orders of business for LHC experiments after beam turn-on
will be to calibrate the detectors using well understood Standard Model (SM)
processes such as W and Z production and ttbar production. These familiar SM
processes can be used to calibrate the electromagnetic and hadronic
calorimeters, and also to calibrate the associated missing transverse energy
signal. However, the presence of new physics may already affect the results
coming from these standard benchmark processes. We show that the presence of
relatively low mass supersymmetry (SUSY) particles may give rise to significant
deviations from SM predictions of Z+jets and W+jets events for jet multiplicity
or , respectively. Furthermore, the presence of low mass SUSY
may cause non-standard deviations to appear in top quark invariant and
transverse mass distributions. Thus, effects that might be construed as
detector mal-performance could in fact be the presence of new physics. We
advocate several methods to check when new physics might be present within SM
calibration data.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, 3 table
Discovery potential for SUSY at a high luminosity upgrade of LHC14
After completion of the LHC8 run in 2012, the plan is to upgrade the LHC for
operation close to its design energy sqrt{s}=14 TeV, with a goal of collecting
hundreds of fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity. The time is propitious to begin
thinking of what is gained by even further LHC upgrades. In this report, we
compute an LHC14 reach for SUSY in the mSUGRA/CMSSM model with an anticipated
high luminosity upgrade. We find that LHC14 with 300 (3000) fb^{-1} has a reach
for SUSY via gluino/squark searches of m(gluino)\sim3.2 TeV (3.6 TeV) for
m(squark)\sim m)gluino), and a reach of m(gluino)\sim1.8 TeV (2.3 TeV) for
m(squark)>> m(gluino). In the case where m(squark)>> m(gluino), then the LHC14
reach for chargino-neutralino production with decay into the Wh+MET final state
reaches to m(gluino)\sim2.6 TeV for 3000 fb^{-1}.Comment: 9 pages with 4 .eps figure
Is natural higgsino-only dark matter excluded?
The requirement of electroweak naturalness in supersymmetric (SUSY) models of
particle physics necessitates light higgsinos not too far from the weak scale
characterized by m(weak)~ m(W,Z,h)~100 GeV. On the other hand, LHC Higgs mass
measurements and sparticle mass limits point to a SUSY breaking scale in the
multi-TeV regime. Under such conditions, the lightest SUSY particle is expected
to be a mainly higgsino-like neutralino with non-negligible gaugino components
(required by naturalness). The computed thermal WIMP abundance in natural SUSY
models is then found to be typically a factor 5-20 below its measured value. To
gain concordance with observations, either an additional DM particle (the axion
is a well-motivated possibility) must be present or additional non-thermal
mechanisms must augment the neutralino abundance. We compare present direct and
indirect WIMP detection limits to three natural SUSY models based on gravity-,
anomaly- and mirage-mediation. We show that the case of natural higgsino-only
dark matter where non-thermal production mechanisms augment its relic density,
is essentially excluded by a combination of direct detection constraints from
PandaX-II, LUX and Xenon-1t experiments, and by bounds from Fermi-LAT/MAGIC
observations of gamma rays from dwarf spheroidal galaxies.Comment: 16 pages with 6 .png figures; some added references for version
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