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Prospects of Discovery for Supersymmetry at the Tevatron
We summarize a discovery potential for supersymmetric particles at the \ppbar
collider of Tevatron with center-of-mass energy \sqrt{s} = 2 TeV and integrated
luminosity \intlum = 15-30 \invfb. Any direct search is kinematically limited
to below 450 \mgev. We, however, have a unique opportunity to test various
supersymmetric scenarios by a measurement of the branching ratio for the rare
decay mode \bsmumu. Using the background estimate in the CDF analysis of
\bsmumu in Run I, we investigate the prospects for studying this mode in Run
II. CDF would be sensitive to this decay for a branching ratio > 1.2 \times
10^{-8} with 15 \invfb (or, if a similar analysis holds for \Dzero, >6.5\times
10^{-9} for the combined data). For \tanb > 30, the \bsmumu search can probe
the SUSY parameter space that cannot be probed by direct production of SUSY
particles at Run II. An observation of \bsmumu with a large branching ratio >
7(14) \times 10^{-8} (feasible with only 2 \invfb) would be sufficient to
exclude the mSUGRA model for \tan\beta \leq 50 (55) including other
experimental constraints. For some models, the branching ratio can be large
enough to be detected even for small and large \mhalf.Comment: 16 pages, latex, 4 figures, talk at 10th International Conference on
Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY02),June
17-23, 2002, DESY, Hamburg, German
Probing Light Nonthermal Dark Matter at the LHC
This paper investigates the collider phenomenolgy of a minimal nonthermal
dark matter model with a 1-GeV dark matter candidate, which naturally explain
baryongensis. Since the light dark matter is not parity-protected, it can be
singly produced at the LHC. This leads to large missing energy associated with
an energetic jet whose transverse momentum distribution is featured by a
Jacobian-like shape. The monojet, dijet, paired dijet and 2 jets + missing
energy channels are studied. Currently existing data at Tevatron and LHC offer
significant bounds on our model.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Characterizing Higgs portal dark matter models at the ILC
We study the Dark Matter (DM) discovery prospect and its spin discrimination
in the theoretical framework of gauge invariant and renormalizable Higgs portal
DM models at the ILC with GeV. In such models, the DM pair is
produced in association with a boson. In case the singlet scalar DM, the
mediator is just the SM Higgs boson, whereas for the fermion or vector DM there
is an additional singlet scalar mediator that mixes with the SM Higgs boson,
which produces significant observable differences. After careful investigation
of the signal and backgrounds both at parton level and at detector level, we
find the signal with hadronically decaying boson provides a better search
sensitivity than the signal with leptonically decaying boson. Taking the
fermion DM model as a benchmark scenario, when the DM-mediator coupling
is relatively small, the DM signals are discoverable only for
benchmark points with relatively light scalar mediator . And the spin
discriminating from scalar DM is always promising while it is difficult to
discriminate from vector DM. As for approaching the perturbative
limit, benchmark points with the mediator in the full mass region of
interest are discoverable. And the spin discriminating from both the scalar and
fermion DM are quite promising.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures, version accepted for publication in EPJ
Heavy Neutrino Search via the Higgs boson at the LHC
In the inverse see-saw model the effective neutrino Yukawa couplings can be
sizable due to a large mixing angle between the light and heavy
neutrinos . When the right handed neutrino can be lighter than the
Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson . It can be produced via the on-shell
decay of the Higgs, at a significant branching fraction at the LHC.
In such a process mass can be reconstructed in its dominant decays. We perform an analysis on this channel and its relevant
backgrounds, among which the jets background is the largest. Considering
the existing mixing constraints from the Higgs and electroweak precision data,
the best sensitivity of the heavy neutrino search is achieved for benchmark
mass at 100 and 110 GeV for upcoming high luminosity LHC runs.Comment: 22 pages, 7 Figures, updated analysis, model part extended, matched
journal version in EPJ
Prospects for discovery and spin discrimination of dark matter in Higgs portal DM models and their extensions at 100 TeV collider
We study the discovery and discriminating prospects of the Higgs portal dark
matter (DM) models for scalar, fermion and vector DM and their extensions in
proton-proton () collisions. The DM associated production in
dileptonic final states is considered, in which the stransverse mass of two
leptons is found to be effective in suppressing the Standard Model backgrounds
along with the missing transverse energy and the angle between two leptons. The
distributions of missing transverse energy and polar angle between two leptons
are used for a discrimination of the spin nature of DM. For the proposed
benchmark points, the discovery/exclusion can be made with an integrated
luminosity less than 1 ab given a 1\% systematic uncertainty, while the
spin discrimination require integrated luminosity of a few O(10) ab
given a 0.5\% systematic uncertainty. The DM phenomenology is also discussed. A
consistent DM candidate can be obtained either by extending our model where the
Higgs portal couples to excited dark states that decay into DM, or modifying
the coupling form into pseudoscalar.Comment: 25 pages, 13 figures; discussions of systematic uncertainty added;
matches the published versio
Minimal SUGRA Model and Collider Signals
The SUSY signals in the dominant stau-neutralino coannihilation region at a
500(800) GeV linear collider are investigated. The region is consistent with
the WMAP measurement of the cold dark matter relic density as well as all other
current experimental bounds within the mSUGRA framework. The signals are
characterized by an existence of very low-energy tau leptons in the final state
due to small mass difference between stau_1 and chi_1 (5-15 GeV). We study the
accuracy of the mass difference measurement with a 1^deg active mask to reduce
a huge SM two-photon background.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Talk presented at ICHEP04, Aug.16-22, Beijing,
China, Numerical typos in Table 5 and 6 are corrected, no changes in figures
and in other numerical result
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