Documents

This is a collection of physics-related documents that may be of interest.

Publications: auxiliary material

See my CV for a list of publications. Alternately, refer to my papers on SPIRES or the arXiv.

• Warped Penguins, Csaba Csaki, Yuval Grossman, Philip Tanedo, Yuhsin Tsai [arXiv:1004.2037]. Additional notes are below. Note: these are intermediate notes to supplement the paper. They are not guaranteed to be correct! There are known sign errors and a few blatantly incorrect statements that I haven't bothered to fix (they are corrected in the paper).
  • Tree-level LFV bounds in RS Hand-written.
  • Matching of the finite 4D loop cutoff. We've had several discussions with colleagues regarding the matching of the 4D loop cutoff to the heaviest KK scale. This document highlights some of these discussions. See also the associated hand-written calculation and Mathematica notebook.
  • Naive power counting. A brief summary of power counting arguments.
  • Warped Penguins. Seminar slides from Yuhsin Tsai (August 2011).
• SUSY_FLAVOR, Janusz Rosiek, Piotr Chankowski, Athanasios Dedes, Sebastian Jäger, Philip Tanedo [arXiv:1003.4260]. See also [arXiv:0812.4320].
  • The most up-to-date version of the code can be found on the SUSY_FLAVOR page maintained by Janusz Rosiek.
  • Old versions of my own code for B→ll' in the Standard Model and the MSSM at low tan β (no Higgs penguins) for checking our SUSY_FLAVOR routines. How to open: download to a directory and untar with "tar -xvf [filename].tar". Compile and run the program with "make".

Write-ups

• Advancement to Candidacy Exam: these are write ups for my A-exam at Cornell University. I presented them in an oral examination on 4 May 2010.
  • 't Hooft and η'ail: Instantons and their applications. A review of instantons in quantum mechanics, gauge theory, and supersymmetry.
  • Has CDMS seen one? Try XENON: Recent Progress on the Direct Detection of DM.
  • Two-Headed Giraffes on Tricycles: Two branes, a long throat, and wrapped S3s. RS from warped compactifications
• One-loop MSSM Predictions for Bs,d→ll' at low tan β, MSc. Thesis, Durham University IPPP.
• Massive Neutrinos in a Warped Extra Dimension, Part III Essay, Cambridge University. An introduction to the RS1 model and the Grossman-Neubert right-handed bulk neutrino extension.

Unfinished Notes

I started writing several pieces of notes for myself to better learn various subjects. I seem to have a hard time finishing them since I either learn what I want (and no longer feel like writing) or I get distracted by something more interesting.

• "Seibergology," Seiberg duality, metastable SUSY breaking (2010, in progress)
• Supersymmetry and Extra Dimensions (2008)... revised 2010 edition (slowly in progress)
• String Theory (Spring 2010)
• Flavor Physics (Fall 2010); see also the hand-written notes from my guest lecture on EFTs.
• Dark Matter (Spring 2011)
• Collider Monte Carlo with Madgraph (Spring 2011)

Miscellaneous

• My beamer template, 2013 edition. I no longer have a template for dark backgrounds since I think these are counterproductive (e.g. not so good for print outs). Sample presentation.
• Drawing Feynman Diagrams in TikZ, some useful examples. (A lot of people ask me how I draw my Feynman diagrams. This is how.)
• Cornell High Energy Theory, a poster for the 2011 grad student open house. (2010 version)
• Cornell HEP Phenomenology Group, a poster. Print one for your dorm room!
• TASI09 T-shirt, still the greatest TASI shirt of all time.
• My entry for the 2009 PGS T-shirt contest. Front, back.
• Johannes Heinonen's B-exam poster, based on The Matrix.
• Stanford SPS Shirt, from circa 2006.