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Supersymmetry with radiatively-driven naturalness: implications for WIMP and axion searches
By insisting on naturalness in both the electroweak and QCD sectors of the
MSSM, the portrait for dark matter production is seriously modified from the
usual WIMP miracle picture. In SUSY models with radiatively-driven naturalness
(radiative natural SUSY or RNS) which include a DFSZ-like solution to the
strong CP and SUSY mu problems, dark matter is expected to be an admixture of
both axions and higgsino-like WIMPs. The WIMP/axion abundance calculation
requires simultaneous solution of a set of coupled Boltzmann equations which
describe quasi-stable axinos and saxions. In most of parameter space, axions
make up the dominant contribution of dark matter although regions of WIMP
dominance also occur. We show the allowed range of PQ scale f_a and compare to
the values expected to be probed by the ADMX axion detector in the near future.
We also show WIMP detection rates which are suppressed from usual expectations
because now WIMPs comprise only a fraction of the total dark matter.
Nonetheless, ton-scale noble liquid detectors should be able to probe the
entirety of RNS parameter space. Indirect WIMP detection rates are less
propitious since they are reduced by the square of the depleted WIMP abundance.Comment: 25 pages with 14 .png figures; submitted to special issue
"Supersymmetry and Dark Matter" in Symmetry, edited by D. Clin
Chiral Extensions of the MSSM
We present a class of extensions of the MSSM characterized by a fully chiral
field content (no mu-terms) and no baryon or lepton number violating term in
the superpotential due to an extra U'(1) gauge symmetry. The minimal model
consist of the usual matter sector with family dependent U'(1) charges, six
Higgs weak doublets, and three singlets required to give masses to the
Higgsinos and cancel anomalies. We discuss its main features such as the tree
level mass spectrum and the constraints on flavor changing processes.Comment: 13 pages. V2: Superpotential and U'(1) charges changed. Analysis of
the spectrum for the new model added. References update
Second-Hand Stress: Neurobiological Evidence for a Human Alarm Pheromone
Alarm pheromones are airborne chemical signals, released by an individual into the environment, which transmit warning of danger to conspecifics via olfaction. Using fMRI, we provide the first neurobiological evidence for a human alarm pheromone. Individuals showed activation of the amygdala in response to sweat produced by others during emotional stress, with exercise sweat as a control; behavioral data suggest facilitated evaluation of ambiguous threat
A Rationale for Long-lived Quarks and Leptons at the LHC: Low Energy Flavour Theory
In the framework of gauged flavour symmetries, new fermions in parity
symmetric representations of the standard model are generically needed for the
compensation of mixed anomalies. The key point is that their masses are also
protected by flavour symmetries and some of them are expected to lie way below
the flavour symmetry breaking scale(s), which has to occur many orders of
magnitude above the electroweak scale to be compatible with the available data
from flavour changing neutral currents and CP violation experiments. We argue
that, actually, some of these fermions would plausibly get masses within the
LHC range. If they are taken to be heavy quarks and leptons, in
(bi)-fundamental representations of the standard model symmetries, their
mixings with the light ones are strongly constrained to be very small by
electroweak precision data. The alternative chosen here is to exactly forbid
such mixings by breaking of flavour symmetries into an exact discrete symmetry,
the so-called proton-hexality, primarily suggested to avoid proton decay. As a
consequence of the large value needed for the flavour breaking scale, those
heavy particles are long-lived and rather appropriate for the current and
future searches at the LHC for quasi-stable hadrons and leptons. In fact, the
LHC experiments have already started to look for them.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
On Composite Two Higgs Doublet Models
We investigate composite two Higgs doublet models realized as pseudo
Goldstone modes, generated through the spontaneous breaking of a global
symmetry due to strong dynamic at the TeV scale. A detailed comparative survey
of two possible symmetry breaking patterns, SU(5) -> SU(4) x U(1) and SU(5) x
SU(4), is made. We point out choices for the Standard Model fermion
representations that can alleviate some phenomenological constraints, with
emphasis towards a simultaneous solution of anomalous Zb\bar{b} coupling and
Higgs mediated Flavor Changing Neutral Currents. We also write down the kinetic
lagrangian for several models leading to Two Higgs Doublets and identify the
anomalous contributions to the T parameter. Moreover, we describe a model based
on the breaking in which there is no tree-level breaking of
custodial symmetry, discussing also the possible embeddings for the fermion
fields.Comment: 17 pages. Mistake corrected, added one section on a T- and flavor
safe model based on SO(9)/SO(8). Matches published versio
Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Colliders
All experimental measurements of particle physics today are beautifully
described by the Standard Model. However, there are good reasons to believe
that new physics may be just around the corner at the TeV energy scale. This
energy range is currently probed by the Tevatron and HERA accelerators and
selected results of searches for physics beyond the Standard Model are
presented here. No signals for new physics have been found and limits are
placed on the allowed parameter space for a variety of different particles.Comment: Proceedings for 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics,
Manchester, July 200
Front-end Electronics for Silicon Trackers readout in Deep Sub-Micron CMOS Technology: The case of Silicon strips at the ILC
For the years to come, Silicon strips detectors will be read using the smallest available integrated technologies for room, transparency, and power considerations. CMOS, Bipolar- CMOS and Silicon-Germanium are presently offered in deepsubmicron (250 down to 90nm) at affordable cost through worldwide integrated circuits multiproject centers. As an example, a 180nm CMOS readout prototype chip has been designed and tested, and gave satisfactory results in terms of noise and power. Beam tests are under work, and prospectives in 130nm will be presented
Report of the GDR working group on the R-parity violation
This report summarizes the work of the "R-parity violation group" of the
French Research Network (GDR) in Supersymmetry, concerning the physics of
supersymmetric models without conservation of R-parity at HERA, LEP, Tevatron
and LHC and limits on R-parity violating couplings from various processes. The
report includes a discussion of the recent searches at the HERA experiment,
prospects for new experiments, a review of the existing limits, and also
theoretically motivated alternatives to R-parity and a brief discussion on the
implications of R-parity violation on the neutrino masses.Comment: 60 pages, LaTeX, 22 figures, 2 table
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