Home Page for John F. Gunion
Basic Information:
Many of the files below require the 'Ghostscript'
or 'Ghostview' viewer program. If you do not have a version of this viewer,
you may download it for most major operating systems at Ghostview
Homepage. The more recent talks are in .pdf format and when
you click on the talk will be opened by acroread. They are opened
in presentation format. To get to the more standard adobe acrobat reader
screen, type ctrl-L. Or to simply quit, use ctrl-Q.
Contents of this home page
-
"Review
of Muon Collider Physics", Madison meeting, April, 1999
-
"Non-Minimal Supersymmetry",
SUSY-99, June, 1999
-
LBL NLC Meeting,
March 2000: "If light Higgs bosons exist, is the NLC guaranteed to find
them?"
-
SUSYTOOLS
2000, Colmar, France, April 2000: "Higgs Physics at Colliders"
-
RADCOR 2000,
Carmel, September 2000: "Do Precision Electroweak Constraints Guarantee
that the NLC can find at least one Higgs boson of a Type-II 2HDM?"
-
LINEAR COLLIDER
WORKSHOP, 2000, Fermilab, October 2000: "Do Precision Electroweak Constraints
Guarantee that the NLC can find at least one Higgs boson of a Type-II 2HDM?"
-
WORKSHOP
ON HIGGS PHYSICS AT A HIGH ENERGY LINEAR COLLIDER, U.C. Davis, January
27-28, 2001: "Hiding the Higgs Bosons of the 2HDM and the Necessity for
Giga-Z and/or Higher Energy"
-
WORKSHOP
ON HIGGS PHYSICS AT A HIGH ENERGY LINEAR COLLIDER, U.C. Davis, January
27-28, 2001: "A Discussion of the Decoupling Limit for the 2-Higgs Doublet
Model"
-
MUON
COLLIDER HIGGS FACTORY WORKSHOP, UCLA, February 28 -- March 1, 2001: "Muon
Collider Higgs Factory"
-
PASCOS 2001, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 9 -- 15,
2001: "Hunting the Higgs Boson(s)"
-
Workshop on the Future of Higgs Physics,
Fermilab, May 3 -- 5, 2001: "Challenges for Higgs Searches"
-
Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders,
Les Houches, May 21 -- June 1, 2001: "Will at least one Higgs boson
of the NMSSM be observable at LEP2 or the LHC?"
-
Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders,
Les Houches, May 21 -- June 1, 2001: "BSM Summary, SUSY (theory)"
-
Snowmass 2001,
June 30 -- July 21, 2001: "Overview of
techniques for determining the CP properties of Higgs bosons
with emphasis on a muon-collider Higgs Factory"
-
Snowmass 2001,
June 30 -- July 21, 2001: "Phenomenology of Generalized Higgs Boson Scenarios"
-
Snowmass 2001,
June 30 -- July 21, 2001: "Heavy MSSM Higgs Production at a $\gam\gam$ Collider: Luminosity and Other Issues"
-
Snowmass 2001,
June 30 -- July 21, 2001: "$e^-e^-$ Collisions and Generalized Higgs Boson Scenarios"
-
Snowmass 2001,
June 30 -- July 21, 2001: "Muon Collider Motivations"
-
Snowmass 2001,
June 30 -- July 21, 2001: "Accessing the LHC/LC Higgs Wedge"
-
Snowmass 2001,
June 30 -- July 21, 2001: "Determining $\tanb$ from H and A total widths"
-
MUTAC meeting, October 18, 2001, LBL:
"Muon Collider Physics Program"
-
ACFA Linear Collider Workshop, November 1, 2001, Tsinghua University, Beijing:
"Detecting and Studying Higgs Bosons in Two-Photon Collisions
at a Linear Collider"
-
Presented at the
4th International Workshop on Electron-Electron Interactions at TeV Energies
(e-e- 01) and at the Linear Collider Workshop, Chicago (January, 2002);
"Unique Physics Probes Using $e^-e^-$, $e^-\gam$ and
$\gam\gam$ Colliders"
-
Presented at the Chicago Linear Collider Workshop, Chicago (January, 2002);
"Detecting Heavy SUSY Higgs Bosons in Two-Photon Collisions at a Linear
Collider"
-
Presented at the Chicago Linear Collider Workshop, Chicago (January, 2002);
"Determination of $\tan\beta$ at a Future $e^+e^-$ Linear Collider"
-
Presented at WIN '02, Christchurch, New Zealand (January, 2002);
"Extended Higgs Sectors"
-
Presented at Euro-GDR Conference, IPPP, Durham, England, April 18, 2002;
"Beyond the SM Higgs Boson"
-
Presented at SUSY02, DESY, June 2002;
"Extended Higgs Scenarios"
-
Presented at SUSY02, DESY, June 2002;
"The Scalar Sector of the Randall-Sundrum Model"
-
Presented at LCWS, Jeju, Aug. 27, 2002;
"Using e^+ e^- and photon-photon Collisions to Probe
the Scalar Sector of the Randall-Sundrum Model"
-
Presented at LCWS, Jeju, Aug. 27, 2002;
"Detecting Higgs Bosons in Two-Photon Collisions"
at a Linear Collider
-
Presented at LCWS, Jeju, Aug. 27, 2002;
"Higgs sectors in which the only light Higgs is a CP-odd A"
-
Presented at LCWS, Jeju, Aug. 27, 2002;
"Unique Physics Probes Using $e^-e^-$, $e^-\gam$ and $\gamma\gamma$ Collisions"
(Only the doubly-charged Higgs boson portion of this talk was
given at LCWS, Jeju.)
-
Presented at the SLAC Photon Collider meeting, SLAC, Nov. 21, 2002;
"Physics Motivations for a Photon-Photon Collider"
-
A Brief Summary of Unique Physics Probes Using $e^-e^-$ Collisions
-
Presented at the Fermilab LHC/LC Workshop Meeting, FNAL, Dec. 12, 2002;
"Essential Motivations for a Photon-Photon Collider and Complementarity
to LHC/LC".
-
Presented at PASCOS 2003, Tata Institute, Mumbai, Jan. 4, 2003;
"Higgs bosons in the Standard Model, the MSSM and beyond".
-
Presented at Les Houches LHC/LC Workshop, Les Houches, June 2, 2003;
"LHC/LC Complementarity in Probing the Scalar Sector
of the Randall-Sundrum Model".
-
Presented at Les Houches LHC/LC Workshop, Les Houches, June 3, 2003;
"Progress Towards a No-Lose Theorem for NMSSM Higgs
Discovery at the LHC and LC Complementarity".
-
Presented at SUSY 2003, Tucson, Arizona, June 9, 2003;
"Higgs Bosons in Supersymmetry and Extra Dimensions".
-
Presented at the Gamma-Gamma Collider Video Conference, June 26, 2003;
"LHC/$\gam C$ Complementarity in Probing
the Scalar Sector of the Randall-Sundrum Model".
-
Presented at the American Linear Collider Workshop, July 13, 2003;
"LHC and $\gam C$ Probes of
the Scalar Sector of the Randall-Sundrum Model."
-
Presented at AHEP2003, Valencia, Spain, October 17, 2003;
"Exotic Higgs Scenarios: Updates and New Ideas."
-
Presented at ALCPG 2004, SLAC, January 9, 2004;
"NMSSM Higgs Detection: LHC, LC, $\gam$C Complementarity and $h\to aa$ decays"
-
Presented at LCWS 2004, Paris, France, April 20, 2004;
"Unique Physics Probes Using an e-e- Collider"
-
Presented at LCWS 2004, Paris, France, April 21, 2004;
"The Importance of photon-photon Collider Probes in addition to LHC/LC for Unraveling the Scalar Sector of the Randall-Sundrum Model"
-
Presented at LCWS 2004, Paris, France, April 21, 2004;
"NMSSM Higgs Detection: LHC, LC, gammaC Complementarity and
h->aa Decays"
-
Presented at SUSY 2004, Tsukuba, Japan, June 18, 2004;
"Higgs Physics in the NMSSM"
-
Presented at SUSY 2004, Tsukuba, Japan, June 18, 2004;
"Probing Extra Dimensions by Invisible Higgs decays at the LHC and a future LC"
-
Presented at the Victoria Linear Collider Workshop, Victoria, Canada, July 29, 2004;
"Precision Electroweak Data and the Mixed Radion-Higgs Sector"
-
Presented at the Victoria Linear Collider Workshop, Victoria, Canada, July 29, 2004;
"Review of NMSSM Higgs and ADD-Invisible Higgs Phenomenologies"
-
Presented at CPNSH Meeting, CERN, December 2, 2004;"News from the NMSSM and Beyond"
-
Presented at the TeV4LHC Higgs group meeting, Fermilab, December 13, 2004;"NMSSM Tevatron/LHC Scenarios: Motivation and Phenomenology"
-
Presented at the Aspen Winter Conference on High Energy
Physics, February 18, 2005; "Higgs Bosons in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Model"
-
Presented at US CMS EMU Meeting at UC Davis, February 25, 2005; "(NMSSM) Higgs Bosons at the LHC"
-
Presented at the LHC/ILC Collaboration Meeting, SLAC, March 23, 2005; "LHC/ILC Complementarity for NMSSM Higgs Bosons"
-
Presented at SUSY 2005, IPPP, Durham, England, July 22, 2005;
"Avoiding fine-tuning in the NMSSM: theoretical
and experimental implications"
-
Presented at Snowmass 2005, Snowmass, CO, August 17, 2005;
"The NMSSM Higgs Sector"
-
Presented at Snowmass 2005, Snowmass, CO, August 23, 2005;
"Dark Matter from Light Neutralinos and CP-odd Higgs
Bosons in the NMSSM and the ILC"
-
Presented at the Aspen 2005 Workshop, Aspen, CO, August 24, 2005;
"LHC/ILC Synergy"
-
Presented at the TeV4LHC Workshop, Fermilab, October 20, 2005;
"Updates on Higgs and Dark Matter in the NMSSM"
-
Presented at the Manchester Workshop on the Future of Forward Physics
at the LHC, Manchester, December 11, 2005;
"LEP and NMSSM Motivations for the Dominance of h->aa->4tau
Decays and LHC/ILC Implications"
-
Presented at the LHC/ILC Meeting, CERN, December 13, 2005;
"Impact of Minimal Fine-Tuning NMSSM Scenarios
on LHC/ILC Complementarity"
-
Presented at the 4th CPNSH Meeting, CERN, December 15, 2005;
"New Developments in the NMSSM"
-
Presented at the SLAC Theory Seminar, January 11, 2006;
"Motivation and Evidence for the h->aa NMSSM Higgs Scenario"
-
Presented at the Mitchell Symposium Texas A&M, April 10, 2006;
"New Developments in the NMSSM and Implications for
Cosmology"
-
Presented at KITP, Santa Barbara, April 28, 2006;
"Why we should believe in the NMSSM"
-
Presented at Galileo Galilei Institute, Johns Hopkin's conference on "What lies beyond
the Standard Model?", Firenze, Italy, June 7, 2006;
"One good answer: the NMSSM with a SM-like Higgs
at 100 GeV"
-
Presented at the Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop, University of
British Columbia, July 19, 2006;
"The NMSSM h->aa Scenario"
-
Presented at the Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop, University of
British Columbia, July 22, 2006;
"Terascale Physics Summary"
-
Presented at the DPF Joint Meeting of Pacific Region Particle Physics Communities, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 31, 2006;
"The NMSSM h -> aa Decay Scenario and the
Elimination of Fine-Tuning"
-
Presented a the 2nd International Workshop on B Factories and New
Measurements (BNM2006II), Nara, Japan, December 19, 2006;
"Probing the NMSSM h->aa Decay Scenario
in Upsilon Decays"
-
Presented at the Aspen 2007 Winter Conference, January 9, 2007;
"Higgs Signals:
The Proliferation of Known Unknowns"
-
Presented at the SLAC BaBar Collaboration Meeting, March 1, 2007;
"Strong Circumstantial Evidence for the
Next-To-Minimal Supersymmetric Model with
a light CP-odd $a$ and $\br(\Upsilon\to\gamma a)>10^{-7}$"
-
Presented at the workshop "The LHC Early Phase for the ILC", Fermilab,
April 12, 2007;
"Extra/Exotic Higgs Decays"
-
Presented at Pheno-2007 "Prelude to the LHC", Madison, Wisconsin, May 9, 2007;
"ILC in the LHC Era"
-
Presented at the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, June 9,
2007: ``Mass Determination in SUSY-like Events with Missing Energy''
-
Presented at ``The 7th International Conference on Particle
Physics Phenomenology'', National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 10, 2007, ``Beyond the Standard Model
and Collider Physics: the LHC Era and its impact on the ILC''
-
Presented at the CERN PhenClub as part of the ``Workshop on
LHC-Cosmology Interplay'', Geneva, July 12, 2007, and at CMS
Physics Week, CERN, Geneva,
July 15,2007: ``A new technique for
SUSY mass determination''
-
Presented at the 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy
Physics, Manchester, England, July 21, 2007, and at SUSY 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 28, 2007: ``Mass Determination in
SUSY-like Events with Missing Energy''
-
Presented at the BaBar Workshop on Higgs and Exotics, SLAC, October
29, 2007, ``Higgs Theory Overview: Why it is important to
search for $\Upsilon\to\gam+Higgs$.''
-
Presented at the 5th Mancheser Forward Physics Workshop, Manchester,
England, December 9, 2007: ``Central Exclusive Higgs
Production and the NMSSM.''
-
Presented at the Workshop on Scalar Mesons, Lisbon, Portugal,
February 15, 2008: ``New (and Old) Perspectives on Higgs Physics.''
-
Presented at the Muon Collider Workshop, Fermilab,
March 5, 2008: ``Remarks on Muon Collider Physics.''
-
Presented at the Joint Theory/CMS Seminar, Fermilab,
March 6, 2008: ``Accurate Mass Determination in SUSY-like Events with Missing Energy."
-
Presented at Davis Higgs Workshop, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA,
March 8, 2008: ``Remarks on $h\to aa\to 4b$ and $h\to aa\to 2\tau 2b$.''
-
News Articles from Pascos 99
News Articles on Higgs Bosons and Related
-
CMS physics: Technical design report
-
Accurate Mass Determinations in Decay Chains with Missing Energy: arXiv:0802.4290
-
Nonstandard Higgs Boson Decays: arXiv:0801.4554
-
Reinstating the 'no-lose' theorem for NMSSM Higgs Discovery at the LHC: arXiv:0712.3510
-
Higgs-boson mass limit within the Randall-Sundrum model: arXiv:0709.3726
-
KK gravitons and unitarity violation in the Randall-Sundrum model:
revised version.
-
A Comparison of Mixed-Higgs Scenarios In the NMSSM and the MSSM: hep-ph/0709.2269
-
Mass determination in SUSY-like events with missing energy: hep-ph/0707.0030
-
The NMSSM Solution to the Fine-Tuning Problem, Precision Electroweak Constraints and the Largest LEP Higgs Event Excess: hep-ph/0705.4387
-
Probing NMSSM Scenarios with Minimal Fine-Tuning by Searching for Decays
of the Upsilon to a Light CP-Odd Higgs Boson: hep-ph/0612031
-
Naturalness of EWSB in NMSSM and Higgs at 100-GeV: hep-ph/0611197
-
The NMSSM Close to the R-symmetry Limit and Naturalness in h --> aa Decays for m_a<2 m_b: hep-ph/0611142
-
The Invisible Higgs Decay Width in the ADD Model at the ILC:
Proceedings of 2005 International Linear Collider workshop,
Stanford, March 2005, pp 0309, LCWS-2005-0309
-
KK gravitons and unitarity violation in the Randall-Sundrum model: hep-ph/0610105
-
CERN Report on CP Studies and Non-Standard Higgs Physics: hep-ph/0608079
-
The EPP questions: Response from the LHC/ILC Study Group.
-
Tree-Level
Unitarity in the Presence of Warped Geometries: Acta
Phys.Polon.B36:3513-3522,2005
-
Supersymmetry
Parameter Analysis: SPA Convention and Project: hep-ph/0511344.
-
Toward High
Precision Higgs-Boson Measurements at the International
Linear e^+e^- Collider: hep-ph/0511332.
-
Consistency of
LEP Event Excesses with an h->aa Decay Scenario
and Low-Fine-Tuning NMSSM Models: hep-ph/0510322.
-
Light Neutralino
Dark Matter in the NMSSM: hep-ph/0509024.
-
EXTENDED JOINT ECFA/DESY STUDY ON PHYSICS AND DETECTOR FOR A LINEAR E+ E- COLLIDER. PROCEEDINGS, SUMMER COLLOQUIUM, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, APRIL 4, 2003.
K. Ackermann et al.. DESY-PROC-2004-01, DESY-04-123, DESY-04-123G, Mar 2004. 140pp.
Prepared for 4th ECFA / DESY Workshop on Physics and Detectors for a
90-GeV to 800-GeV Linear e+ e- Collider, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 1-4 Apr 2003.
-
Conditions for CP-violation in the General Two-Higgs-Doublet Model: hep-ph/0506227.
-
Difficult Scenarios for NMSSM Higgs Discovery at
the LHC: hep-ph/0503203.
-
Proceedings of the "Extended Joint ECFA/DESY Study on Physics
and Detector for a Linear e+e- Collider"
-
Escaping the Large Fine Tuning and Little Hierarchy Problems
in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Model and H->AA Decays:
hep-ph/0502105.
-
The Need For A Photon-Photon Collider In Addition To LHC & ILC For Unraveling The Scalar Sector Of The Randall-Sundrum Model.
-
Physics Interplay of the LHC and the ILC
-
NMSSM Higgs Detection: LHC. LC, Gamma Collider Complementarity and Higgs-to-Higgs Decays
-
NMHDECAY: A Fortran Code for the Higgs Masses, Couplings
and Decay Widths in the NMSSM
-
The Invisible Higgs Decay Width in the ADD Model at the LHC
-
NMSSM Higgs Discovery at the LHC
-
Precision electroweak data and the mixed radion-Higgs sector
of warped extra dimensions
-
Complementarity of a low-energy photon collider and LHC
physics
-
Towards a no lose theorem for NMSSM Higgs discovery
at the LHC
-
On the complementarity of Higgs and radion searches at the LHC
-
Bulk scalar stabilization of the radion without metric back-reaction in
the Randall-Sundrum model
-
e^+e^- --> nu anti-nu A in the Two Higgs Doublet Model
-
Higgs Physics at the Linear Collider
-
Determing tan(beta) with Neutral and Charged Higgs Bosons at a e+e-
Linear Collider
-
Extended Higgs Sectors
-
Overview of tan(beta) Determination at a Linear e+e- Collider
-
New Results for a Photon-Photon Collider
-
Status of Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Research and Development
and Future Plans
-
The CP-Conserving Two Higgs Doublet Model: The Approach to the Decoupling
Limit
-
Higgs Boson Interactions within the Randall-Sundrum Model
-
The Scalar Sector of the Randall-Sundrum Model
-
Unique physics probes using e- e-, e- gamma and gamma gamma
colliders
(Summary talk for the Proceedings of e- e- 01)
-
The Beyond the Standard Model Working Group: Summary Report
(In the Proceedings of Snowmass 2001)
-
The Precision of Higgs Boson Measurements and their Implications
(In the Proceedings of Snowmass 2001)
-
The Snowmass Points and Slopes: Benchmarks for SUSY Searches
(In the Proceedings of Snowmass 2001)
-
Higgs Sectors in which the only light Higgs boson is CP-odd and Linear
Collider strategies for its discovery
(In the Proceedings of Snowmass 2001)
-
Determination of tan(beta) at a future e+e- Linear Collider
(In the Proceedings of Snowmass 2001)
-
The Degenerate Wino-Like Chargino/Neutralino Scenario at a Linear Collider
-
Photon-Photon and Electron-Photon Colliders with Energies below a TEV
-
Establishing a No-Lose Theorem for NMSSM Higgs Boson Discovery at the
LHC
-
Phenomenology of Generalized Higgs Boson Scenarios
-
Physics of Higgs Factories
-
Detecting and Studying Higgs Bosons in Two-Photon Collisions
at a Linear Collider
-
Linear Collider
Physics Resource Book for Snowmass 2001
-
Hunting the Higgs Boson(s)
-
TESLA TDR:
Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider
-
Probing Models with Near Degeneracy of the Chargino and LSP at a Linear e+e- Collider
-
Do precision electroweak constraints guarantee e+ e- collider discovery of at least one Higgs boson of a type II two Higgs doublet
model?
-
Do Precision Electroweak
Constraints Guarantee e^+e^- Collider Discovery of at least one Higgs Boson
of a Two-Higgs-Doublet Model?
-
A
Feasibility Study of a Neutrino Source Based on a Muon Storage Ring
-
How Valuable is Polarization
at a Muon Collider? A Test Case: Determining the CP Nature of a Higgs Boson
-
Higher Twist Contributions
to R Hadron Phenomenology in the Light Gluino Scenario
-
Search Strategies for
Non-Standard Higgs Bosons at Future e^+e^- Colliders
-
Kaluza-Klein Excitations
and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
-
A study of SUSY signatures
at the Tevatron in models with near mass degeneracy of the lightest chargino
and neutralino
-
Analysis of Narrow s-channel
Resonances at Lepton Colliders
-
A New Technique for Determining
the Properties of a Narrow $s$-channel Resonance at a Muon Collider
-
Finding the CP-Violating
Higgs Bosons at e^+e^- Colliders
-
Selected Low-Energy Supersymmetry
Phenomenology Topics
-
Detecting and Studying
the Lightest Pseudo-Goldstone Boson at Future $pp$, $e^+e^-$ and $\mu^+\mu^-$
Colliders
Solutions and information files not explicitly labeled as 'PDF' require
the Ghostscript or Ghostview programs available as described near the top
of my home page. However, the download is a bit non-trivial and so I will
also provide these course materials in the Adobe Acrobat Reader format.
These versions are the 'PDF version' files below. The Adobe Acrobat Reader program
is freely available and usually easy to download from the Adobe
Acrobat Reader Download Site.
9D: Modern Physics,
-
Course Outline
and General Information for 9D-A, Spring 2005. (PDF version)
-
Laptop Notes for 9D-A, Spring 2005,
Part 1 (Chapters 1 through 3) in PDF format.
-
Laptop Notes for 9D-A, Spring 2005,
Part 2 (Chapters 4 through 7) in PDF format.
-
Laptop Notes for 9D-A, Spring 2005,
Part 3 (Chapters 8 and 9) in PDF format.
-
Laptop Notes for 9D-A, Spring 2005,
Part 4 (Chapters 13, 14 and 15) in PDF format.
230AB: Quantum Field Theory and 245C: Renormalization
246: Supersymmetry
Copyright John F. Gunion, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
All federal and state copyrights reserved
for all original material presented in these courses
through any medium, including lecture or print.