Publications by Andrea De Simone

On the effective operators for Dark Matter annihilations

Alexander Monin, Andrea De Simone, Andrea Thamm

We consider effective operators describing Dark Matter (DM) interactions with Standard Model fermions. In the non-relativistic limit of the DM field, the operators can be organized according to their mass dimension and their velocity behaviour, i.e. whethe ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

A first top partner hunter's guide

Riccardo Rattazzi, Andrea Wulzer, Andrea De Simone

We provide a systematic effective lagrangian description of the phenomenology of the lightest top-partners in composite Higgs models. Our construction is based on symmetry, on selection rules and on plausible dynamical assumptions. The structure of the res ...

Springer Nature2013

Electroweak lights from Dark Matter annihilations

Andrea De Simone

The energy spectra of Standard Model particles originated from Dark Matter annihilations can be significantly altered by the inclusion of electroweak gauge boson radiation from the final state. A situation where this effect is particularly important is whe ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Conditional probabilities in the excursion set theory: generic barriers and non-Gaussian initial conditions

Andrea De Simone, Michele Maggiore

The excursion set theory, where density perturbations evolve stochastically with the smoothing scale, provides a method for computing the dark matter halo mass function. The computation of the mass function is mapped into the so-called first-passage time p ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford2011

Magnetic fields at first order phase transition: a threat to electroweak baryogenesis

Andrea De Simone

The generation of the observed baryon asymmetry may have taken place during the electroweak phase transition, thus involving physics testable at LHC, a scenario dubbed electroweak baryogenesis. In this paper we point out that the magnetic field which is pr ...

2011

Initial state radiation in Majorana Dark Matter annihilations

Andrea De Simone

The cross section for a Majorana Dark Matter particle annihilating into light fermions is helicity suppressed. We show that, if the Dark Matter is the neutral Majorana component of a multiplet which is charged under the electroweak interactions of the Stan ...

2011

On the importance of electroweak corrections for Majorana dark matter indirect detection

Andrea De Simone

Recent analyses have shown that the inclusion of electroweak corrections can alter significantly the energy spectra of Standard Model particles originated from dark matter annihilations. We investigate the important situation where the radiation of electro ...

2011

Lopsided gauge mediation

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Roberto Franceschini, Andrea De Simone

It has been recently pointed out that the unavoidable tuning among supersymmetric parameters required to raise the Higgs boson mass beyond its experimental limit opens up new avenues for dealing with the so called mu-B-mu problem of gauge mediation. In fac ...

Springer Nature2011