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Jesse Thaler.
Thomas, Zoe Talbott
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
2014-10-21T17:24:31Z
2014-10-21T17:24:31Z
2014
2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91074
892487270
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216).
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.
by Zoe Talbott Thomas.
Ph.D.
216 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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