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In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (the MSSM), the electroweak symmetry is restored as supersymmetry-breaking terms are turned off. We describe a generic extension of the MSSM where the electroweak symmetry is broken in the…
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We consider a supersymmetric hybrid inflation scenario in which the U(1) $R$-symmetry is explicitly broken by Planck scale suppressed operators in the superpotential. We provide an example with minimal K\"ahler potential, with the…
Supersymmetric models with nonuniversal down type squark masses can enrich the chiral structure and CP violating phenomena in $b\to s\gamma$ decays. Direct CP violation in $b\to s \gamma$, mixing induced CP violation in radiative $B_{d,s}$…
We propose a scheme where the three relevant physics scales related to the supersymmetry, electroweak, and baryon minus lepton (B-L) breakings are linked together and occur at the TeV scale. The phenomenological implications in the Higgs…
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In the MSSM, the Charge and Color Breaking (CCB) vacuum in the plane $(H_2,\tilde{t}_L, \tilde{t}_R)$ typically deviates largely from all D-flat directions, due to the large effects induced by the presence of the top quark Yukawa coupling.…
We explore isospin mixing beyond that due to the Coulomb interaction in the framework of an exactly solvable microscopic sp(4) algebraic approach. Specifically, we focus on the isospin non-conserving part of the pure nuclear pairing…
Strong WW scattering at the LHC is discussed as a manifestation of electroweak symmetry breaking in the absence of a light Higgs boson. The general framework of the Higgs mechanism -- with or without a Higgs boson -- is reviewed, and…
We construct phenomenologically viable supersymmetric models where CP is an approximate symmetry. The full high energy theory has exact CP and horizontal symmetries that are spontaneously broken with a naturally induced hierarchy of scales,…
The anomalous dimuon charge asymmetry reported by the D0 Collaboration may be due to the tree-level exchange of some spin-0 particles that mediate CP violation in B_s-\bar{B}_s meson mixing. We show that for a range of couplings and masses,…
The light double $\Lambda$ hypernuclei, ${}_{\Lambda\Lambda}^{\ \ 4}$H and ${}_{\Lambda\Lambda}^{\ \ 6}$He, are studied as three-body $\Lambda\Lambda d$ and $\Lambda\Lambda\alpha$ cluster systems in halo/cluster effective field theory at…
In this contribution, I discuss the role of symmetries and algebraic methods in nuclear structure physics. In particular, I review some recent developments in nuclear supersymmetry and indicate possible applications for light nuclei in the…
We study the pattern of chiral symmetry breaking ($\chi$SB) in the $\psi\chi\eta$ model (with the chiral fermion sector containing $ \psi^{\{ij\}}$, $\chi_{[ij]}$, and $\eta_{i}^{A}$, see [1]) on $\mathbb{R}^3 \times S^{1}_{L}$ and derive…