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Boosting Stop Searches with a 100 TeV Proton Collider

JHEP 11 (2014) 021

Studies stop pair production at a 100 TeV collider, introducing a muon-in-jet top-tagging strategy for the highly boosted regime and projecting discovery reach up to 6.5 TeV stop masses with 3000 fb^-1.

Here be Dragons: The Unexplored Continents of the CMSSM

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.

Higgs, Binos and Gluinos: Split Susy Within Reach

unpublished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.

Nearly Supersymmetric Dark Atoms

Adv. High Energy Phys. 2011 (2011) 709492

Proposes a class of supersymmetric composite dark matter models where Standard Model interactions communicate SUSY breaking to the dark sector, computing the bound state spectrum with leading supersymmetry effects using a general formalism independent of binding dynamics.

The Hunt for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

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.

Searching for Directly Decaying Gluinos at the Tevatron

Phys. Lett. B 666 (2008) 34-37

Shows how to search the complete kinematic parameter space for pair-produced color octets decaying to two jets plus missing energy at the Tevatron, demonstrating that CMSSM-motivated cuts cause existing searches to miss discoverable spectra.

Searching for Gluinos at the Tevatron and Beyond

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.

Reheating Metastable O'Raifeartaigh Models

Phys. Rev. D 75:085006 (2007)

Shows that in a class of supersymmetric models with metastable vacua, the transition to a lower-energy state does not occur even for arbitrarily high reheating temperatures, contrary to naive expectations about thermal transitions between vacua.

Stopping Gluinos

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.

Limits on Split Supersymmetry from Gluino Cosmology

Phys. Rev. D 72 (2005) 075011

Derives an upper limit on scalar superpartner masses in split supersymmetry from big bang nucleosynthesis constraints on long-lived gluinos. A TeV-mass gluino must decay within 100 seconds, setting the SUSY breaking scale below 10^9 GeV.

D-terms, Unification, and the Higgs Mass

JHEP 0606:034 (2006)

Shows that gauge extensions of the MSSM with non-decoupling D-terms can raise the Higgs boson mass while maintaining gauge coupling unification, with unification constraining the Higgs mass to below roughly 150 GeV and predicting new heavy gauge bosons at a few TeV.

One Loop Predictions of the Finely Tuned SSM

Phys. Rev. D 70:117703 (2004)

Computes one-loop predictions for split supersymmetry, finding the Higgs mass in the range 130-170 GeV for scalar masses above 10^6 GeV, and showing that 1% measurements of gaugino couplings could determine the SUSY breaking scale to within an order of magnitude.

Higher Dimensional Supersymmetry in 4D Superspace

JHEP 0203:055 (2002)

Provides an explicit formulation of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories from 5 to 10 dimensions in familiar 4D N=1 superspace, enabling systematic model building with extra dimensions, orbifold constructions, brane-localized interactions, and anomaly inflow.