There is almost universal agreement among astronomers that most of the mass in the Universe and most of the mass in the Galactic halo is dark. Many lines of reasoning suggest that the dark matter consists of some new, as yet undiscovered, weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP). There is now a vast experimental effort being surmounted to detect WIMPS in the halo. The most promising techniques involve direct detection in low-background laboratory detectors and indirect detection through observation of energetic neutrinos from annihilation of WIMPs that have accumulated in the Sun and/or the Earth. Of the many WIMP candidates, perhaps the best motivated and certainly the most theoretically developed is the neutralino, the lightest superpartner in many supersymmetric theories. We review the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model and discuss prospects for detection of neutralino dark matter. We review in detail how to calculate the cosmological abundance of the neutralino and the event rates for both direct- and indirect-detection schemes, and we discuss astrophysical and laboratory constraints on supersymmetric models. We isolate and clarify the uncertainties from particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics that enter at each step in the calculation. We briefly review other related dark-matter candidates and detection techniques.

Supersymmetric Dark Matter

http://cds.cern.ch/record/326993/files/9705477.pdf

Quantum chromodynamics and other field theories on the light cone

http://cds.cern.ch/record/257993/files/9401310.pdf

QCD phenomenology based on a chiral effective Lagrangian

Preface Inputs to the standard model Interactions of the standard model Symmetries and anomalies Introduction to effective Lagrangians Leptons Very low energy QCD - Pions and photons Introducing kaons and etas Kaons and the S=1 interaction Kaon mixing and CP violation The large N expansion Phenomenological models Baryon properties Hadron spectroscopy Weak interactions of heavy quarks The Higgs boson The electroweak gauge bosons Appendices References Index.

Dynamics of the Standard Model

We calculate the gauge terms of the one-loop anomalous dimension matrix for the dimension-six operators of the Standard Model effective field theory (SM EFT). Combin- ing these results with our previous results for the λ and Yukawa coupling terms completes the calculation of the one-loop anomalous dimension matrix for the dimension-six operators. There are 1350 CP-even and 1149 CP-odd parameters in the dimension-six Lagrangian for 3 generations, and our results give the entire 2499 × 2499 anomalous dimension matrix. We discuss how the renormalization of the dimension-six operators, and the additional renormal- ization of the dimension d ≤ 4 terms of the SM Lagrangian due to dimension-six operators, lays the groundwork for future precision studies of the SM EFT aimed at constraining the ef- fects of new physics through precision measurements at the electroweak scale. As some sample applications, we discuss some aspects of the full RGE improved result for essential processes such as gg → h, h → γγ and h → Zγ, for Higgs couplings to fermions, for the precision electroweak parameters S and T, and for the operators that modify important processes in precision electroweak phenomenology, such as the three-body Higgs boson decay h → Z l + l and triple gauge boson couplings. We discuss how the renormalization group improved results can be used to study the flavor problem in the SM EFT, and to test the minimal flavor viola- tion (MFV) hypothesis. We briefly discuss the renormalization effects on the dipole coefficient Ceγ which contributes to µ → eγ and to the muon and electron magnetic and electric dipole moments.

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Renormalization group evolution of the Standard Model dimension six operators III: gauge coupling dependence and phenomenology

We calculate the complete order y
 2 and y
 4 terms of the 59 × 59 one-loop anomalous dimension matrix for the dimension-six operators of the Standard Model effective field theory, where y is a generic Yukawa coupling. These terms, together with the terms of order λ, λ
 2 and λy
 2 depending on the Standard Model Higgs self-coupling λ which were calculated in a previous work, yield the complete one-loop anomalous dimension matrix in the limit of vanishing gauge couplings. The Yukawa contributions result in non-trivial flavor mixing in the various operator sectors of the Standard Model effective theory.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP01%282014%29035.pdf

Renormalization group evolution of the Standard Model dimension six operators II: Yukawa dependence

The g1 problem: Deep inelastic electron scattering and the spin of the proton☆

We calculate the gauge terms of the one-loop anomalous dimension matrix for the dimension-six operators of the Standard Model effective field theory (SM EFT). Combining these results with our previous results for the $\lambda$ and Yukawa coupling terms completes the calculation of the one-loop anomalous dimension matrix for the dimension-six operators. There are 1350 $CP$-even and $1149$ $CP$-odd parameters in the dimension-six Lagrangian for 3 generations, and our results give the entire $2499 \times 2499$ anomalous dimension matrix. We discuss how the renormalization of the dimension-six operators, and the additional renormalization of the dimension $d \le 4$ terms of the SM Lagrangian due to dimension-six operators, lays the groundwork for future precision studies of the SM EFT aimed at constraining the effects of new physics through precision measurements at the electroweak scale. As some sample applications, we discuss some aspects of the full RGE improved result for essential processes such as $gg \to h$, $h \to \gamma \gamma$ and $h \to Z \gamma$, for Higgs couplings to fermions, for the precision electroweak parameters $S$ and $T$, and for the operators that modify important processes in precision electroweak phenomenology, such as the three-body Higgs boson decay $h \rightarrow Z \, \ell^+ \, \ell^-$ and triple gauge boson couplings. We discuss how the renormalization group improved results can be used to study the flavor problem in the SM EFT, and to test the minimal flavor violation (MFV) hypothesis. We briefly discuss the renormalization effects on the dipole coefficient $C_{e\gamma}$ which contributes to $\mu \to e \gamma$ and to the muon and electron magnetic and electric dipole moments.

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Aneesh V. Manohar

Papers

Renormalization group evolution of the Standard Model dimension six operators III: gauge coupling dependence and phenomenology

Renormalization group evolution of the Standard Model dimension six operators II: Yukawa dependence

The g1 problem: Deep inelastic electron scattering and the spin of the proton☆

Renormalization Group Evolution of the Standard Model Dimension Six Operators III: Gauge Coupling Dependence and Phenomenology

Reparameterisation invariance constraints on heavy particle effective field theories