Alfredo Gurrola

Probing Dark Matter at the LHC using Vector Boson Fusion Processes

Vector boson fusion processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provide a unique opportunity to search for new physics with electroweak couplings. A feasibility study for the search of supersymmetric dark matter in the final state of two vector boson fusion jets and large missing transverse energy is presented at 14 TeV. Prospects for determining the dark matter relic density are studied for the cases of wino and bino-Higgsino dark matter. The LHC could probe wino dark matter with mass up to approximately 600 GeV with a luminosity of 1000  fb(-1).

Vector boson fusion processes as a probe of supersymmetric electroweak sectors at the LHC

Vector boson fusion (VBF) processes offer a promising avenue to study the non-colored sectors of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model at the LHC. A feasibility study for searching for the chargino/neutralino system in the

Probing compressed top squark scenarios at the LHC at 14 TeV

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Supersymmetry signals of supercritical string cosmology at the Large Hadron Collider

parity conserving Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is presented. The high

Probing compressed sleptons at the LHC using vector boson fusion processes

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Probing the stau-neutralino coannihilation region at the LHC with a soft tau lepton and a jet from initial state radiation

forward jets in opposite hemispheres are utilized to trigger VBF events, so that the production of the lightest chargino and the second lightest neutralino can be probed without a bias by experimental triggers. Kinematic requirements are developed to search for signals of these supersymmetric states above Standard Model backgrounds in both

Probing compressed bottom squarks with boosted jets and shape analysis

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Expanding the reach of heavy neutrino searches at the LHC

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Searching for new heavy neutral gauge bosons using vector boson fusion processes at the LHC

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Probing Supersymmetric Dark Matter and the Electroweak Sector using Vector Boson Fusion Processes: A Snowmass Whitepaper

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