Eur. Phys. J. C 75 (2015) 409
Report from the BOOST 2013 workshop studying relationships between jet substructure observables, their complementarity, and their dependence on underlying jet properties for quark/gluon discrimination, boosted W tagging, and boosted top tagging.
JHEP 05 (2014) 005
Develops a data-driven method for estimating QCD backgrounds in boosted-object searches by constructing templates from the substructure properties of jets in control regions.
JHEP 04 (2014) 117
Projects the discovery reach and exclusion limits for supersymmetric simplified models at the 14 TeV LHC and future 33 and 100 TeV proton colliders, finding that a 100 TeV machine can discover gluinos below 11 TeV.
Eur. Phys. J. C 74 (2014) 2792
Community report from the BOOST 2012 workshop summarizing the state of the art in jet substructure theory, tools, and experimental systematics for boosted-object identification at the LHC.
Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 093006
Evaluates the potential of a same-sign dilepton plus two b-jet search for tth production, providing direct access to the top Yukawa coupling without dependence on loop-level couplings or Higgs width uncertainties.
JHEP 09 (2013) 061
Provides a complete map of the CMSSM parameter space consistent with the Higgs mass and dark matter abundance, organizing viable regions by dark matter mechanism and presenting benchmark models with their 13 TeV LHC signatures.
JHEP 08 (2013) 136
Introduces a subjet-counting search technique for high-multiplicity BSM signals at the LHC, using jet substructure to count subjets within large-radius jets and demonstrating improved sensitivity across eight benchmark signals with reduced reliance on missing energy.
Phys. Rev. D 85 (2012) 055029
Introduces a new class of BSM searches that recluster events into large-radius fat jets and require multiple massive jets, improving sensitivity to high-multiplicity signals including R-parity violating gluino decays by 20-50% in mass reach.
J. Phys. G 39 (2012) 063001
Second annual BOOST workshop report, updating substructure benchmarks with new tools and the first Tevatron and LHC experimental results, and publishing harmonized software implementations of top-tagging algorithms.
JHEP 01 (2012) 074
Develops a comprehensive set of simplified models for LHC final states with top and bottom quarks, optimizing search strategies for pair-produced color octets and triplets, and providing benchmarks that ensure optimal coverage of heavy flavor new physics.
unpublished
Shows that early LHC evidence for a Higgs boson at 142-147 GeV points to PeV-scale split supersymmetry, with moderate-lifetime gluinos (25 microns to 10 years decay length) and an almost purely bino LSP at 70 GeV as discovery signatures.
J. Phys. G 39 (2012) 105005
A systematic catalog of simplified models for new-physics searches at the LHC, defining minimal effective Lagrangians with few new particles whose masses and cross-sections map directly to observable quantities. Output of the SLAC workshop on Topologies for Early LHC Searches.
JHEP 10 (2011) 012
Optimizes jets + missing energy search strategies for early 7 TeV LHC data, mapping sensitivity across simplified model spectra and providing concrete recommendations for kinematic cuts and signal regions.
JHEP 04 (2012) 007
Introduces dipolarity, a jet observable that distinguishes whether a pair of subjets originates from a color-singlet source by measuring the pattern of radiation between them. Incorporated into the HEPTopTagger, it improves top-vs-QCD discrimination.
Eur. Phys. J. C 71 (2011) 1661
Report of the hadronic working group of the BOOST 2010 workshop, reviewing boosted-particle reconstruction techniques and presenting the first systematic benchmark comparisons of jet grooming and top tagging algorithms.
Phys. Lett. B 702 (2011) 64-68
Reinterprets the first ATLAS supersymmetry search with 70/nb of data, showing that gluino masses below 205 GeV are disfavored regardless of LSP mass, already surpassing the Tevatron reach for compressed spectra.
JHEP 12 (2010) 030
Develops search strategies for new physics at the LHC that improve sensitivity by combining multiple signal regions and optimizing for broad coverage across simplified model mass planes.
Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 200-202 (2010) 185-417
A comprehensive overview of new physics possibilities at the LHC, covering electroweak symmetry breaking, dark matter, extra dimensions, supersymmetry, hidden sectors, and TeV-scale strings, intended as a companion to the ATLAS and CMS Technical Design Reports.
Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) 115006
Shows that a Higgs boson decaying to light pseudoscalars can be discovered via the subdominant channel where one pseudoscalar decays to muon pairs, enabling coverage at the Tevatron and early LHC even when the pseudoscalar mass is below 10 GeV.
Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) 015005
Proposes a model-agnostic approach to jets + missing energy searches at the LHC by defining kinematic bins and publishing differential cross-section limits that can be reinterpreted for any BSM model producing the same final state.
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 23 (2008) 4637-4646
Conference proceedings reviewing search strategies for gluinos at the Tevatron and the upcoming LHC, summarizing the model-independent approach to jets plus missing energy searches.
Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) 055007
Shows that long-lived gluinos in split supersymmetry form R-hadrons that stop in detector material, with 10^6 stopping per year in LHC detectors for a 300 GeV gluino. The subsequent delayed decays produce distinctive calorimeter deposits with no tracker or muon chamber activity.
JHEP 0208:021 (2002)
Introduces the minimal theory-space construction for a Little Higgs model, where the Higgs is a pseudo-Goldstone boson protected from quadratic divergences by collective symmetry breaking. Predicts new TeV-scale partners for the top quark, gauge bosons, and scalars, with the entire Higgs potential generated by the top Yukawa coupling.