Spring 2007

• Probing Minimal Flavor Violation at the LHC.
  Yuval Grossman, Yosef Nir, Jesse Thaler, Tomer Volansky, and Jure Zupan.
  arXiv:0706.1845, Phys. Rev. D76:096006 (2007).

Fall 2006 - Winter 2007

• Natural Dark Matter from an Unnatural Higgs Boson and New Colored Particles at the TeV Scale.
  Aaron Pierce and Jesse Thaler.
  JHEP 0708:026 (2007), hep-ph/0703056.

Summer 2006

• Disentangling Dimension Six Operators through Di-Higgs Boson Production.
  Aaron Pierce, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang.
  JHEP 0705:070 (2007), hep-ph/0609049.

Spring 2006

In order for a supersymmetric extension of the standard model to be viable, supersymmetry must be broken. Moreover, SUSY breaking must be communicated to the standard model in a way that does not introduce large modifications to the known successes of the standard model.

Mirage mediation is one example of a SUSY breaking communication scheme, and in the literature, there was a proposed limit of mirage mediation that (if it existed) would have minimized the tension with the standard model. We showed, however, that this proposed limit was difficult to achieve in practice, and in generic mirage mediation models, there is some residual tension.

• Prospects for Mirage Mediation.
  Aaron Pierce and Jesse Thaler.
  JHEP 0609:017 (2006), hep-ph/0604192.