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Stringy Instantons as Strong Dynamics
We study the relation between stringy instantons and strong dynamics effects
in type IIB toric quiver gauge theories. By exploiting the involutive property
of Seiberg duality we relate the classical constraint on the moduli space of
the gauge theory with the stringy instanton contribution to the superpotential.
The result holds for unitary, orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups.Comment: Minor corrections, reference added, published in JHE
Phenomenology of General Gauge Mediation in light of a 125 GeV Higgs
We explore the phenomenology of the full General Gauge Mediation parameter
space in the MSSM focusing on the consequences of having a fundamental Higgs
around 125 GeV. Assuming GUT-complete structure of the hidden sector, we allow
for deviations from the strict definition of gauge mediated SUSY-breaking
coming from mild violations of messenger-parity and from extra couplings
between the Higgs multiplets and the hidden sector. Relaxing the GUT
assumption, our parameter space is defined by the property of having vanishing
A-terms at the messenger scale. In this extended setup we focus on the
possibility of splitting the SU(3) mass parameters of GGM. In all these
scenarios we investigate the possible spectra, discussing to what extent having
an Higgs mass around 125 GeV is constraining the GGM parameter space and what
are the possible signatures at LHC.Comment: 83 pages, 29 figures; v2: minor corrections, references adde
Di-photon excess illuminates Dark Matter
We propose a simplified model of dark matter with a scalar mediator to
accommodate the di-photon excess recently observed by the ATLAS and CMS
collaborations. Decays of the resonance into dark matter can easily account for
a relatively large width of the scalar resonance, while the magnitude of the
total width combined with the constraint on dark matter relic density lead to
sharp predictions on the parameters of the Dark Sector. Under the assumption of
a rather large width, the model predicts a signal consistent with ~300 GeV dark
matter particle in channels with large missing energy. This prediction is not
yet severely bounded by LHC Run I searches and will be accessible at the LHC
Run II in the jet plus missing energy channel with more luminosity. Our
analysis also considers astrophysical constraints, pointing out that future
direct detection experiments will be sensitive to this scenario.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures. Added 2 figures and more discussion
A feeble window on leptophilic dark matter
In this paper we study a leptophilic dark matter scenario involving feeble
dark matter coupling to the Standard Model (SM) and compressed dark
matter-mediator mass spectrum. We consider a simplified model where the SM is
extended with one Majorana fermion, the dark matter, and one charged scalar,
the mediator, coupling to the SM leptons through a Yukawa interaction. We first
discuss the dependence of the dark matter relic abundance on the Yukawa
coupling going continuously from freeze-in to freeze-out with an intermediate
stage of conversion driven freeze-out. Focusing on the latter, we then exploit
the macroscopic decay length of the charged scalar to study the resulting
long-lived-particle signatures at collider and to explore the experimental
reach on the viable portion of the parameter space.Comment: 32 pages, 10 figure
New LHC bound on low-mass diphoton resonances
We derive a new bound on diphoton resonances using inclusive diphoton cross
section measurements at the LHC, in the so-far poorly constrained mass range
between the Upsilon and the SM Higgs. This bound sets the current best limit on
axion-like particles that couple to gluons and photons, for masses between 10
and 65 GeV. We also estimate indicative sensitivities of a dedicated diphoton
LHC search in the same mass region, at 7, 8 and 14 TeV. As a byproduct of our
analysis, we comment on the axion-like particle interpretation of the CMS
excesses in low-mass dijet and diphoton searches.Comment: 7 pages + appendices, 5 figures, 2 tables. v2: discussion improved,
new bound derived also from Tevatron, conclusions unchanged. v3: matches PLB
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BPS states and their reductions
We develop a method to identify the BPS states in the Hilbert space of a
supersymmetric field theory on a generic curved space which preserves at least
two real supercharges. We also propose a one-to-one map between BPS states in
d-dimensional field theories and states that contribute to the supersymmetric
partition function of a corresponding (d-1)-dimensional field theory. As an
application we obtain the superconformal index on rounded and squashed three
spheres, and we show a natural reduction of the respective indices to the
three-dimensional exact partition functions. We discuss the validity of the
correspondence both at the perturbative and at the non-perturbative level and
exploit the idea to uplift the computation of the exact supersymmetric
partition function on a general manifold to a higher dimensional index.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figure, typos fixe
Sgoldstino-less inflation and low energy SUSY breaking
We assess the range of validity of sgoldstino-less inflation in a scenario of
low energy supersymmetry breaking. We first analyze the consistency conditions
that an effective theory of the inflaton and goldstino superfields should
satisfy in order to be faithfully described by a sgoldstino-less model.
Enlarging the scope of previous studies, we investigate the case where the
effective field theory cut-off, and hence also the sgoldstino mass, are
inflaton-dependent. We then introduce a UV complete model where one can realize
successfully sgoldstino-less inflation and gauge mediation of supersymmetry
breaking, combining the alpha-attractor mechanism and a weakly coupled model of
spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry. In this class of models we find that,
given current limits on superpartner masses, the gravitino mass has a lower
bound of the order of the MeV, i.e. we cannot reach very low supersymmetry
breaking scales. On the plus side, we recognize that in this framework, one can
derive the complete superpartner spectrum as well as compute inflation
observables, the reheating temperature, and address the gravitino overabundance
problem. We then show that further constraints come from collider results and
inflation observables. Their non trivial interplay seems a staple feature of
phenomenological studies of supersymmetric inflationary models.Comment: 40 pages, 4 figures. v2: minor clarifications added (as published in
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