Supersymmetry at the dawn of the LHC era
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Thomas, Zoe Talbott![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/91074/892487270.pdf.jpg?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
Advisor
Jesse Thaler.
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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.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2014. 156 Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216).
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2014Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Physics.