The landscape of QCD axion models

L Di Luzio, M Giannotti, E Nardi, L Visinelli - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the landscape of QCD axion models. Theoretical constructions that extend the
window for the axion mass and couplings beyond conventional regions are highlighted and …

The dawn of FIMP dark matter: a review of models and constraints

N Bernal, M Heikinheimo, T Tenkanen… - … Journal of Modern …, 2017 - World Scientific
We present an overview of scenarios where the observed Dark Matter (DM) abundance
consists of Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), produced nonthermally by the so …

Status of weak scale supersymmetry after LHC Run 2 and ton-scale noble liquid WIMP searches

H Baer, V Barger, D Sengupta, S Salam… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
After completion of LHC Run 2, the ATLAS and CMS experiments had collected of order 139
fb− 1 of data at√ s= 13 TeV. While discovering a very Standard Model-like Higgs boson of …

SUSY under siege from direct and indirect WIMP detection experiments

H Baer, V Barger, H Serce - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We examine updated prospects for detecting WIMPs in supersymmetric models via direct
and indirect dark matter search experiments. We examine several historical and also still …

Revisiting the SUSY problem and its solutions in the LHC era

KJ Bae, H Baer, V Barger, D Sengupta - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The supersymmetry (SUSY)-preserving μ parameter in SUSY theories is naively expected to
be of order the Planck scale while phenomenology requires it to be of order the weak scale …

Inelastic freeze-in

S Heeba, T Lin, K Schutz - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Dark matter (DM) could be a nonthermal relic that freezes in from extremely weak, sub-
Hubble annihilation and decay of Standard Model (SM) particles. The case of Dirac DM …

[HTML][HTML] The cosmological moduli problem and naturalness

KJ Bae, H Baer, V Barger, RW Deal - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Nowadays, the cosmological moduli problem (CMP) comes in three parts: 1.
potential violation of Big-Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints from late decaying moduli …

[HTML][HTML] Is natural higgsino-only dark matter excluded?

H Baer, V Barger, D Sengupta, X Tata - The European Physical Journal C, 2018 - Springer
The requirement of electroweak naturalness in supersymmetric (SUSY) models of particle
physics necessitates light higgsinos not too far from the weak scale characterized by m …

[HTML][HTML] Prospects for heavy neutral SUSY Higgs scalars in the hMSSM and natural SUSY at LHC upgrades

H Baer, V Barger, X Tata, K Zhang - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
We examine production and decay of heavy neutral SUSY Higgs bosons pp→ H, A→ τ τ¯
within the hMSSM and compare against a perhaps more plausible natural supersymmetry …

Supersymmetric grand unified theories

S Raby - Lect. Notes Phys, 2017 - Springer
Particle physics is the study of the fundamental building blocks of nature, ie the particles and
their interactions. We have learned much about the four known forces of nature—the strong …