Supersymmetry at the dawn of the LHC era
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Thesis PDF
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Author(s)
Thomas, Zoe Talbott
Advisor(s)
Jesse Thaler.
Date Issued
2014
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
In this thesis, I explore various experimental, theoretical, and observational consequences of supersymmetry (SUSY). I show how copious production of Higgs bosons in SUSY events at the LHC can be a striking signal of multiple SUSY-breaking. In the context of anomaly mediation in supergravity, I demonstrate how goldstino couplings can be used as a probe of the underlying symmetry structure of unbroken SUSY in anti-de Sitter space. When multiple SUSY-breaking occurs and goldstini comprise most of the dark matter in the universe, I find a new two-body decay mode of a goldstini to a gravitino and a single photon that could be a striking indirect detection of dark matter if it were seen at gamma-ray telescopes such as FERMI.
Description
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2014.
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Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216).
Subjects
Physics.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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