Scenarios of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
| dc.contributor.author | Fok, Ricky | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-02-13T19:48:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-02-13T19:48:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-09 | |
| dc.description | xviii, 124 p. : ill. (some col.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation discusses three topics on scenarios beyond the Standard Model. Topic one is the effects from a fourth generation of quarks and leptons on electroweak baryogenesis in the early universe. The Standard Model is incapable of electroweak baryogenesis due to an insufficiently strong enough electroweak phase transition (EWPT) as well as insufficient CP violation. We show that the presence of heavy fourth generation fermions solves the first problem but requires additional bosons to be included to stabilize the electroweak vacuum. Introducing supersymmetric partners of the heavy fermions, we find that the EWPT can be made strong enough and new sources of CP violation are present. Topic two relates to the lepton avor problem in supersymmetry. In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), the off-diagonal elements in the slepton mass matrix must be suppressed at the 10-3 level to avoid experimental bounds from lepton avor changing processes. This dissertation shows that an enlarged R-parity can alleviate the lepton avor problem. An analysis of all sensitive parameters was performed in the mass range below 1 TeV, and we find that slepton maximal mixing is possible without violating bounds from the lepton avor changing processes: μ [arrow right] eγ; μ [arrow right] e conversion, and μ [arrow right] 3e. Topic three is the collider phenomenology of quirky dark matter. In this model, quirks are particles that are gauged under the electroweak group, as well as a \dark" color SU (2) group. The hadronization scale of this color group is well below the quirk masses. As a result, the dark color strings never break. Quirk and anti-quirk pairs can be produced at the LHC. Once produced, they immediately form a bound state of high angular momentum. The quirk pair rapidly shed angular momentum by emitting soft radiation before they annihilate into observable signals. This dissertation presents the decay branching ratios of quirkonia where quirks obtain their masses through electroweak symmetry breaking. This dissertation includes previously published and unpublished co-authored material. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Committee in charge: Dr. Davison Soper: Chair; Dr. Graham Kribs: Advisor; Dr. Ray Frey: Member; Dr. Michael Kellman: Outside Member | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/11940 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Physics, Ph. D., 2011; | |
| dc.rights | rights_reserved | en_US |
| dc.subject | Physics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Particle physics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pure sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Electroweak phase transition | en_US |
| dc.subject | Quirk | en_US |
| dc.subject | Supersymmetry | en_US |
| dc.title | Scenarios of Physics Beyond the Standard Model | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |