Global fits for new physics at the LHC and beyond
Description
We study physics beyond the Standard Model with state-of-the-art global fits of both UV-complete models like supersymmetry and the more general effective field theories (EFTs). The gamma-ray excess from the galactic center measured by Fermi-LAT can be interpreted as a dark matter signature in the minimal supersymmetric model. Using the SFitter framework we identify different annihilation channels with a dark matter mass up to 300 GeV yielding the measured spectrum. Strong constraints from direct detection experiments and relic density rule out large regions of the parameter space, favoring a pseudoscalar mediator. In the next-to-minimal supersymmetric model the additional singlet allows efficient annihilation of dark matter particles below 60 GeV via a light pseudoscalar. We connect the resulting solutions to the GC excess with a large invisible Higgs branching ratio in reach of the LHC. Finally we use the EFT framework to constrain higher-dimensional operators from the Higgs and the electroweak gauge sector. Our bounds on triple gauge-boson couplings from LHC di-boson channels are several times stronger than those obtained from LEP data. The combination of Higgs measurements and triple gauge vertices leads to a significant improvement in the entire set of operators.
Availability note (English)
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 142 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 49045902
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Thesis, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; BRANCHING RATIO; COSMIC PHOTONS; CROSS SECTIONS; GALAXY NUCLEI; GAMMA SPECTRA; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD FIT; MILKY WAY; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; POSTULATED PARTICLES; REST MASS; S CODES; STANDARD MODEL; SUPERSYMMETRY; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY; WEINBERG-SALAM GAUGE MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COMPUTER CODES; COSMIC RADIATION; DECAY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; GALAXIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATTER; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATIONS; SPECTRA; SYMMETRY; UNIFIED FIELD THEORIES; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS