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John Heal

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arXiv2025

Closing Gaps in Emissions Monitoring with Climate TRACE

Global greenhouse gas emissions estimates are essential for monitoring and mitigation planning. Existing emissions datasets provide critical foundations for understanding emissions patterns across sectors, geographies, and time scales. Through a structured assessment of recent emissions datasets, we identified opportunities to further increase the actionability of emissions data through more comprehensive source-level coverage, finer spatial and temporal resolution, and more frequent updates. Building on existing resources to address these opportunities, we present the Climate TRACE framework and resulting dataset, which is available on an open-access platform (climatetrace.org). The Climate TRACE framework synthesizes existing emissions data, prioritizing accuracy, coverage, and resolution, and fills remaining gaps using sector-specific estimation approaches. The resulting dataset is the first to provide global emissions estimates for individual sources (e.g., individual power plants) for most anthropogenic emitting sectors. The dataset spans January 1, 2021, to the present, with a two-month reporting lag and monthly updates. This dataset and open-access platform provides access to detailed emissions estimates for most subnational governments worldwide. By combining source-level spatial detail, monthly updates, and broad sectoral coverage, the dataset is designed to support analyses relevant to emissions monitoring and mitigation planning.

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arXiv2017

Constraints on Z' models from LHC dijet searches and implications for dark matter

We analyse a combination of ATLAS and CMS searches for dijet resonances at run I and run II, presenting the results in a way that can be easily applied to a generic Z' model. As an illustrative example, we consider a simple model of a Z' coupling to quarks and dark matter. We first study a benchmark case with fixed couplings and then focus on the assumption that the Z' is responsible for setting the dark matter relic abundance. Dijet constraints place significant bounds on this scenario, allowing us to narrow down the allowed range of dark matter masses for given Z' mass and width.

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arXiv2016

The Significance of the 750 GeV Fluctuation in the ATLAS Run 2 Diphoton Data

We investigate the robustness of the resonance like feature centred at around a 750 GeV invariant mass in the 13 TeV diphoton data, recently released by the ATLAS collaboration. We focus on the choice of empirical function used to model the continuum diphoton background in order to quantify the uncertainties in the analysis due to this choice. We extend the function chosen by the ATLAS collaboration to one with two components. By performing a profile likelihood analysis we find that the local significance of a resonance drops from $3.9σ$ using the ATLAS background function, and a freely-varying width, to only $2σ$ with our own function. We argue that the latter significance is more realistic, since the former was derived using a function which is fit almost entirely to the low-energy data, while underfitting in the region around the resonance.

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arXiv2015

Complementarity of Dark Matter Searches at Resonance

We consider models of dark matter where the couplings between the standard model and the dark sector fall at resonance due to kinematics and direct detection experiments become insensitive. To be specific, we consider a simple model of 100 GeV - TeV scale dark matter coupled to the standard model via a vector boson. We explore whether it will be possible to exclude such regions of the parameter space using future observations of dijet rates at the LHC and CTA and AMS observations of the Galactic Centre.

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