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	Author	Cabrera, M.E.; Casas, A.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Bertone, G.
	Title	LHC and dark matter phenomenology of the NUGHM			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Journal of High Energy Physics	Abbreviated Journal	J. High Energy Phys.
	Volume	12	Issue	12	Pages	114 - 39pp
	Keywords	Supersymmetry Phenomenology
	Abstract	We present a Bayesian analysis of the NUGHM, a supersymmetric scenario with non-universal gaugino masses and Higgs masses, including all the relevant experimental observables and dark matter constraints. The main merit of the NUGHM is that it essentially includes all the possibilities for dark matter (DM) candidates within the MSSM, since the neutralino and chargino spectrum -and composition- are as free as they can be in the general MSSM. We identify the most probable regions in the NUHGM parameter space, and study the associated phenomenology at the LHC and the prospects for DM direct detection. Requiring that the neutralino makes all of the DM in the Universe, we identify two preferred regions around m(chi 10) = 1 TeV, 3 TeV, which correspond to the (almost) pure Higgsino and wino case. There exist other marginal regions (e.g. Higgs-funnel), but with much less statistical weight. The prospects for detection at the LHC in this case are quite pessimistic, but future direct detection experiments like LUX and XENON1T, will be able to probe this scenario. In contrast, when allowing other DM components, the prospects for detection at the LHC become more encouraging – the most promising signals being, beside the production of gluinos and squarks, the production of the heavier chargino and neutralino states, which lead to WZ and same-sign WW final states – and direct detection remains a complementary, and even more powerful, way to probe the scenario.
	Address	[Cabrera, Maria Eugenia; Bertone, Gianfranco] Univ Amsterdam, Inst Theoret Phys, GRAPPA, NL-1018 XE Amsterdam, Netherlands, Email: mcabrera@if.usp.br;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1029-8479	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000346771200001			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	2063
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	Author	Achterberg, A.; van Beekveld, M.; Caron, S.; Gomez-Vargas, G.A.; Hendriks, L.; Ruiz de Austri, R.
	Title	Implications of the Fermi-LAT Pass 8 Galactic Center excess on supersymmetric dark matter			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics	Abbreviated Journal	J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
	Volume	12	Issue	12	Pages	040 - 23pp
	Keywords	dark matter theory; galaxy morphology; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; dwarfs galaxies
	Abstract	The Fermi Collaboration has recently updated their analysis of gamma rays from the center of the Galaxy. They reconfirm the presence of an unexplained emission feature which is most prominent in the region of 1-10 GeV, known as the Galactic Center GeV excess (GCE). Although the GCE is now fi rmly detected, an interpretation of this emission as a signal of self-annihilating dark matter (DM) particles is not unambiguously possible due to systematic effects in the gamma-ray modeling estimated in the Galactic Plane. In this paper we build a covariance matrix, collecting different systematic uncertainties investigated in the Fermi Collaboration's paper that affect the GCE spectrum. We show that models where part of the GCE is due to annihilating DM is still consistent with the new data. We also re-evaluate the parameter space regions of the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) that can contribute dominantly to the GCE via neutralino DM annihilation. All recent constraints from DM direct detection experiments such as PICO, LUX, PandaX and Xenon1T, limits on the annihilation cross section from dwarf spheroidal galaxies and the Large Hadron Collider limits are considered in this analysis. Due to a slight shift in the energy spectrum of the GC excess with respect to the previous Fermi analysis, and the recent limits from direct detection experiments, we find a slightly shifted parameter region of the MSSM, compared to our previous analysis, that is consistent with the GCE. Neutralinos with a mass between 85-220 GeV can describe the excess via annihilation into a pair of W-bosons or top quarks. Remarkably, there are models with low fine-tuning among the regions that we have found. The complete set of solutions will be probed by upcoming direct detection experiments and with dedicated searches in the upcoming data of the Large Hadron Collider.
	Address	[Achterberg, Abraham; van Beekveld, Melissa; Caron, Sascha; Hendriks, Luc] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Fac Sci, Inst Math Astrophys & Particle Phys, Mailbox 79,POB 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands, Email: a.achterberg@astro.ru.nl;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Iop Publishing Ltd	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1475-7516	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000418922000003			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	3439
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	Author	Jueid, A.; Kip, J.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Skands, P.
	Title	Impact of QCD uncertainties on antiproton spectra from dark-matter annihilation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2023	Publication	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics	Abbreviated Journal	J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
	Volume	04	Issue	4	Pages	068 - 15pp
	Keywords	cosmic ray theory; dark matter simulations; cosmic ray experiments; Frequentist statistics
	Abstract	Dark-matter particles that annihilate or decay can undergo complex sequences of processes, including strong and electromagnetic radiation, hadronisation, and hadron de-cays, before particles that are stable on astrophysical time scales are produced. Antiprotons produced in this way may leave footprints in experiments such as AMS-02. Several groups have reported an excess of events in the antiproton flux in the rigidity range of 10-20 GV. However, the theoretical modeling of baryon production is not straightforward and relies in part on phenomenological models in Monte Carlo event generators. In this work, we assess the impact of QCD uncertainties on the spectra of antiprotons from dark-matter annihila-tion. As a proof-of-principle, we show that for a two-parameter model that depends only on the thermally-averaged annihilation cross section ((o -v)) and the dark-matter mass (Mx), QCD uncertainties can affect the best-fit mass by up to ti 14% (with large uncertainties for large DM masses), depending on the choice of Mx and the annihilation channel (bb over bar or W+W-), and (o -v) by up to ti 10%. For comparison, changes to the underlying diffusion parameters are found to be within 1%-5%, and the results are also quite resilient to the choice of cosmic-ray propagation model. These findings indicate that QCD uncertainties need to be included in future DM analyses. To facilitate full-fledged analyses, we provide the spectra in tabulated form including QCD uncertainties and code snippets to perform mass interpolations and quick DM fits. The code can be found in this GitHub [1] repository.
	Address	[Jueid, Adil] Inst Basic Sci IBS, Ctr Theoret Phys Universe, Daejeon 34126, South Korea, Email: adiljueid@ibs.re.kr;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	IOP Publishing Ltd	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1475-7516	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000985779900007			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	5532
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	Author	Ruiz de Austri, R.; Perez de los Heros, C.
	Title	Impact of nucleon matrix element uncertainties on the interpretation of direct and indirect dark matter search results			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics	Abbreviated Journal	J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
	Volume	11	Issue	11	Pages	049 - 19pp
	Keywords	dark matter theory; dark matter experiments; supersymmetry and cosmology
	Abstract	We study in detail the impact of the current uncertainty in nucleon matrix elements on the sensitivity of direct and indirect experimental techniques for dark matter detection. We perform two scans in the framework of the cMSSM: one using recent values of the pion-sigma term obtained from Lattice QCD, and the other using values derived from experimental measurements. The two choices correspond to extreme values quoted in the literature and reflect the current tension between different ways of obtaining information about the structure of the nucleon. All other inputs in the scans, astrophysical and from particle physics, are kept unchanged. We use two experiments, XENON100 and IceCube, as benchmark cases to illustrate our case. We find that the interpretation of dark matter search results from direct detection experiments is more sensitive to the choice of the central values of the hadronic inputs than the results of indirect search experiments. The allowed regions of cMSSM parameter space after including XENON100 constrains strongly differ depending on the assumptions on the hadronic matrix elements used. On the other hand, the constraining potential of IceCube is almost independent of the choice of these values.
	Address	[Ruiz de Austri, R.] IFIC UV CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain, Email: rruiz@ific.uv.es;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Iop Publishing Ltd	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1475-7516	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000327843900050			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	1674
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	Author	Kpatcha, E.; Lopez-Fogliani, D.E.; Munoz, C.; Ruiz de Austri, R.
	Title	Impact of Higgs physics on the parameter space of the μnu SSM			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2020	Publication	European Physical Journal C	Abbreviated Journal	Eur. Phys. J. C
	Volume	80	Issue	4	Pages	336 - 43pp
	Keywords
	Abstract	Given the increasing number of experimental data, together with the precise measurement of the properties of the Higgs boson at the LHC, the parameter space of supersymmetric models starts to be constrained. We carry out a detailed analysis of this issue in the framework of the μnu SSM. In this model, three families of right-handed neutrino superfields are present in order to solve the μproblem and simultaneously reproduce neutrino physics. The new couplings and sneutrino vacuum expectation values in the μnu SSM induce new mixing of states, and, in particular, the three right sneutrinos can be substantially mixed with the neutral Higgses. After diagonalization, the masses of the corresponding three singlet-like eigenstates can be smaller or larger than the mass of the Higgs, or even degenerated with it. We analyze whether these situations are still compatible with the experimental results. To address it we scan the parameter space of the Higgs sector of the model. In particular, we sample the μnu SSM using a powerful likelihood data-driven method, paying special attention to satisfy the constraints coming from Higgs sector measurements/limits (using HiggsBounds and HiggsSignals), as well as a class of flavor observables such as B and μdecays, while muon g-2 is briefly discussed. We find that large regions of the parameter space of the μnu SSM are viable, containing an interesting phenomenology that could be probed at the LHC.
	Address	[Kpatcha, Essodjolo; Munoz, Carlos] Univ Autonoma Madrid UAM, Dept Fis Teor, Campus Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain, Email: kpatcha.essodjolo@uam.es;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1434-6044	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000529962200001			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	4386
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	Author	Bertone, G.; Bozorgnia, N.; Kim, J.S.; Liem, S.; McCabe, C.; Otten, S.; Ruiz de Austri, R.
	Title	Identifying WIMP dark matter from particle and astroparticle data			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics	Abbreviated Journal	J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
	Volume	03	Issue	3	Pages	026 - 42pp
	Keywords	dark matter detectors; dark matter experiments; dark matter theory
	Abstract	One of the most promising strategies to identify the nature of dark matter consists in the search for new particles at accelerators and with so-called direct detection experiments. Working within the framework of simplified models, and making use of machine learning tools to speed up statistical inference, we address the question of what we can learn about dark matter from a detection at the LHC and a forthcoming direct detection experiment. We show that with a combination of accelerator and direct detection data, it is possible to identify newly discovered particles as dark matter, by reconstructing their relic density assuming they are weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) thermally produced in the early Universe, and demonstrating that it is consistent with the measured dark matter abundance. An inconsistency between these two quantities would instead point either towards additional physics in the dark sector, or towards a non-standard cosmology, with a thermal history substantially different from that of the standard cosmological model.
	Address	[Bertone, Gianfranco; Bozorgnia, Nassim; Liem, Sebastian] Univ Amsterdam, GRAPPA Inst, Inst Theoret Phys Amsterdam, Sci Pk 904, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands, Email: g.bertone@uva.nl;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Iop Publishing Ltd	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1475-7516	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000427501000002			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	3522
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	Author	Panes, B.; Eckner, C.; Hendriks, L.; Caron, S.; Dijkstra, K.; Johannesson, G.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Zaharijas, G.
	Title	Identification of point sources in gamma rays using U-shaped convolutional neural networks and a data challenge			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2021	Publication	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Abbreviated Journal	Astron. Astrophys.
	Volume	656	Issue		Pages	A62 - 18pp
	Keywords	catalogs; gamma rays: general; astroparticle physics; methods: numerical; methods: data analysis; techniques: image processing
	Abstract	Context. At GeV energies, the sky is dominated by the interstellar emission from the Galaxy. With limited statistics and spatial resolution, accurately separating point sources is therefore challenging. Aims. Here we present the first application of deep learning based algorithms to automatically detect and classify point sources from gamma-ray data. For concreteness we refer to this approach as AutoSourceID. Methods. To detect point sources, we utilized U-shaped convolutional networks for image segmentation and k-means for source clustering and localization. We also explored the Centroid-Net algorithm, which is designed to find and count objects. Using two algorithms allows for a cross check of the results, while a combination of their results can be used to improve performance. The training data are based on 9.5 years of exposure from The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) and we used source properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and pulsars (PSRs) from the fourth Fermi-LAT source catalog in addition to several models of background interstellar emission. The results of the localization algorithm are fed into a classification neural network that is trained to separate the three general source classes (AGNs, PSRs, and FAKE sources). Results. We compared our localization algorithms qualitatively with traditional methods and find them to have similar detection thresholds. We also demonstrate the robustness of our source localization algorithms to modifications in the interstellar emission models, which presents a clear advantage over traditional methods. The classification network is able to discriminate between the three classes with typical accuracy of similar to 70%, as long as balanced data sets are used in classification training. We published online our training data sets and analysis scripts and invite the community to join the data challenge aimed to improve the localization and classification of gamma-ray point sources.
	Address	[Panes, Boris] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Ave Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Macul, Region Metropol, Chile, Email: bapanes@gmail.com
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Edp Sciences S A	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0004-6361	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000725877600001			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	5053
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	Author	Bertone, G.; Cerdeño, D.G.; Fornasa, M.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Trotta, R.
	Title	Identification of dark matter particles with LHC and direct detection data			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Physical Review D	Abbreviated Journal	Phys. Rev. D
	Volume	82	Issue	5	Pages	055008 - 7pp
	Keywords
	Abstract	Dark matter (DM) is currently searched for with a variety of detection strategies. Accelerator searches are particularly promising, but even if weakly interacting massive particles are found at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it will be difficult to prove that they constitute the bulk of the DM in the Universe Omega(DM). We show that a significantly better reconstruction of the DM properties can be obtained with a combined analysis of LHC and direct detection data, by making a simple Ansatz on the weakly interacting massive particles local density rho(0)((chi) over bar1), i.e., by assuming that the local density scales with the cosmological relic abundance, (rho(0)((chi) over bar1)/rho(DM)) = (Omega(0)((chi) over bar1)/Omega(DM)). We demonstrate this method in an explicit example in the context of a 24-parameter supersymmetric model, with a neutralino lightest supersymmetric particle in the stau coannihilation region. Our results show that future ton-scale direct detection experiments will allow to break degeneracies in the supersymmetric parameter space and achieve a significantly better reconstruction of the neutralino composition and its relic density than with LHC data alone.
	Address	[Bertone, G.] Univ Zurich, Inst Theoret Phys, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Amer Physical Soc	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1550-7998	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ISI:000281741400005			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ elepoucu @			Serial	380
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	Author	Ghosh, P.; Lopez-Fogliani, D.E.; Mitsou, V.A.; Muñoz, C.; Ruiz de Austri, R.
	Title	Hunting physics beyond the standard model with unusual W-+/- and Z decays			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Physical Review D	Abbreviated Journal	Phys. Rev. D
	Volume	91	Issue	3	Pages	035020 - 8pp
	Keywords
	Abstract	Nonstandard on-shell decays of W-+/- and Z bosons are possible within the framework of extended supersymmetric models, i.e., with singlet states and/or new couplings compared to the minimal supersymmetric standard model. These modes are typically encountered in regions of the parameter space with light singlet-like scalars, pseudoscalars, and neutralinos. In this letter we emphasize how these states can lead to novel signals at colliders from Z- or W-+/--boson decays with prompt or displaced multileptons/tau jets/jets/photons in the final states. These new modes would give distinct evidence of new physics even when direct searches remain unsuccessful. We discuss the possibilities of probing these new signals using the existing LHC run-I data set. We also address the same in the context of the LHC run-II, as well as for the future colliders. We exemplify our observations with the “mu from v” supersymmetric standard model, where three generations of right-handed neutrino superfields are used to solve shortcomings of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We also extend our discussion for other variants of supersymmetric models that can accommodate similar signatures.
	Address	[Ghosh, Pradipta; Munoz, Carlos] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Email: pradipta.ghosh@uam.es;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Amer Physical Soc	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1550-7998	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000352305400009			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	yes
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	2185
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	Author	Cabrera, M.E.; Casas, J.A.; Mitsou, V.A.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Terron, J.
	Title	Histogram comparison tools for the search of new physics at LHC. Application to the CMSSM			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	Journal of High Energy Physics	Abbreviated Journal	J. High Energy Phys.
	Volume	04	Issue	4	Pages	133 - 27pp
	Keywords	Beyond Standard Model; Supersymmetric Standard Model; Statistical Methods
	Abstract	We propose a rigorous and effective way to compare experimental and theoretical histograms, incorporating the different sources of statistical and systematic uncertainties. This is a useful tool to extract as much information as possible from the comparison between experimental data with theoretical simulations, optimizing the chances of identifying New Physics at the LHC. We illustrate this by showing how a search in the CMSSM parameter space, using Bayesian techniques, can effectively find the correct values of the CMSSM parameters by comparing histograms of events with multijets + missing transverse momentum displayed in the effective-mass variable. The procedure is in fact very efficient to identify the true supersymmetric model, in the case supersymmetry is really there and accessible to the LHC.
	Address	[Eugenia Cabrera, Maria; Alberto Casas, J.] UAM, IFT UAM CSIC, Inst Fis Teor, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Email: maria.cabrera@uam.es;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1126-6708	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	WOS:000304148100059			Approved	no
	Is ISI	yes	International Collaboration	no
	Call Number	IFIC @ pastor @			Serial	1053
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