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Author ORCID Identifier
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AccessType
Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Physics
Year Degree Awarded
2016
Month Degree Awarded
September
First Advisor
Michael Ramsey-Musolf
Subject Categories
Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory
Abstract
The origin of the baryon asymmetry in the universe and the nature of the dark matter remain mysteries and addressing these cosmological puzzles requires physics beyond the standard model. Electroweak baryogenesis remains a highly testable framework for explaining the baryon asymmetry and is employed in this work to study the capability of baryon generation for beyond standard model physics models and to explore new physics discovery potential in high energy and precision frontier. Weakly interacting massive particles as cold dark matter are also studied in this work featuring loop induced direct detection signals and novel nuclear responses within the recently developed non-relativistic effective field theory framework.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/9050221.0
Recommended Citation
Guo, Huaike, "Chasing New Physics: From Electroweak Baryogenesis to Dark Matter" (2016). Doctoral Dissertations. 837.
https://doi.org/10.7275/9050221.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/837