Physics

We present an alternative approach to low-energy supersymmetry. Instead of imposing R-parity we apply the minimal flavor violation (MFV) hypothesis to the R-parity violating MSSM. In this framework, squarks can be light and the proton long lived...

In 2011, the pace of the Standard Model Higgs search far exceeded expectation. All but a narrow mass window between 122-128 GeV is excluded. At this point only two search channels can provide meaningful insight into resolving this search in 2012....

Anomaly mediation is a ubiquitous source of supersymmetry breaking which appears in almost every theory of supergravity. Despite its ubiquity, anomaly mediation has been the source of much theoretical confusion, and the goal of this talk is to...

Holography provides a powerful tool to study non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly coupled quantum field theories, mapping challenging quantum dynamics on to semi-classical gravity in one higher dimension. One interesting quantum field theory...