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Yasar Hicyilmaz

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arXiv2026

Glimpses of the X17 from coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering

We show that the process of Coherent Elastic neutrino (ν) Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS) at nuclear reactor experiments has significant sensitivity to the so-called X17 particle, which has been invoked to explain the ATOMKI anomaly, wherein electron-positron pairs emerging from a nuclear transition of excited Be-8, He-4 and C-12 nuclei are studied. Such a new state has potentially been identified as a spin-1 object, with axial-vector couplings and a mass around 16.7 MeV, hence, in the kinematic range accessible by the aforementioned experimental settings. Specifically, we fit CONUS+ and Dresden-II data and show that a robust statistical analysis renders these more compatible with the X17 hypothesis, in turn interfering with the Standard Model (SM), than with that of the latter alone. The same stays true when also adding COHERENT data from π+ decays at rest, singling out two regions of preferred couplings of the X17 to electron and muon neutrinos as well as nuclei.

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arXiv2026

The X17 Existence Hinted at by Nuclear Reactor Neutrinos

We show that by exploiting the process of Coherent Elastic neutrino (v) Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS), neutrino measurements by nuclear reactor experiments appear to corroborate the evidence of the so-called X17 particle, which has been invoked to explain the ATOMKI anomaly. We base our analysis primarily on CONUS+ and Dresden-II data, which, when combined with CEvNS data from COHERENT and neutrino oscillation data from IceCube, single out a unique region of couplings to neutrinos and nuclei.

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arXiv2018

Charged Higgs in MSSM and Beyond

We conduct a numerical study over the constrained MSSM (CMSSM), Next-to-MSSM (NMSSM) and $U(1)$ extended MSSM (UMSSM) to probe the allowed mass ranges of the charged Higgs boson and its dominant decay patterns, which might come into prominence in near future collider experiments. {We present results obtained from a limited scan for CMSSM} as a basis and compare its predictions with the extended models. We observe within our data that a wide mass range is allowed as $0.5(1) \lesssim m_{H^{\pm}} \lesssim 17$ TeV in UMSSM (NMSSM). We find that the dominant decay channel is mostly $H^{\pm}\rightarrow tb$ such that ${\rm BR}(H^{\pm}\rightarrow tb) \sim 80\%$. While this mode remains dominant over the whole allowed parameter space of CMSSM, we realize some special domains in the NMSSM and UMSSM, in which ${\rm BR}(H^{\pm}\rightarrow tb) \lesssim 10\%$. In this context, the decay patterns of the charged Higgs can play a significant role to distinguish among the SUSY models. In addition to the $tb$ decay mode, we find that the narrow mass scale in CMSSM allows only the decay modes for the charged Higgs boson to $τν$ ($\sim 16\%$), and their supersymmetric partners $\tildeτ\tildeν$ ($\sim 13\%$). On the other hand, it is possible to realize the mode in NMSSM and UMSSM in which the charged Higgs boson decays into a chargino and neutralino pair up to about $25\%$. {This decay mode requires non-universal boundary conditions within the MSSM framework to be available, since CMSSM yields ${\rm BR} (H^{\pm}\rightarrow \tildeχ_{1}^{0}\tildeχ_{1}^{\pm}) \lesssim 1\%$.} It can also be probed in near future collider experiments through the missing energy and CP-violation measurements...

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arXiv2017

Least Fine-Tuned U(1) Extended SSM

We consider the Higgs boson mass in a class of the UMSSM models in which the MSSM gauge group is extended by an additional U(1)' group. Implementing the universal boundary conditions at the GUT scale we target phenomenologically interesting regions of UMSSM where the necessary radiative contributions to the lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass are significantly small and LSP is always the lightest neutralino. We find that the smallest amount of radiative contributions is about 50 GeV in UMSSM, this result is much lower than that obtained in MSSM, which is around 90 GeV. Additionally, we examine the Higgs boson properties in these models to check if it can behave similar to the SM Higgs boson under the current experimental constraints. We find that enforcement of smaller radiative contribution mostly restricts the U(1)' breaking scale as v_S <~ 10 TeV. Besides, such low contributions demand h_S ~ 0.2 - 0.45. Because of the model dependency in realizing these radiative contributions theta_E_6 < 0 are more favored, if one seeks for the solutions consistent with the current dark matter constraints. As to the mass spectrum, we find that stop and stau can be degenerate with the LSP neutralino in the range from 300 GeV to 700 GeV; however, the dark matter constraints restrict this scale as m_stop, m_stau >~ 500$ GeV. Such degenerate solutions also predict stop-neutralino and stau-neutralino coannihilation channels, which are effective to reduce the relic abundance of neutralino down to the ranges consistent with the current dark matter observations. Finally, we discuss the effects of heavy M_Z' in the fine-tuning. Even though the radiative contributions are significantly low, the required fine-tuning can still be large. We comment about reinterpretation of the fine-tuning measure in the UMSSM framework, which can yield efficiently low results for the fine-tuning at the electroweak scale.

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arXiv2016

Quasi Yukawa Unification and Fine-Tuning in U(1) Extended SSM

We consider the low scale implications in the U(1)' extended MSSM (UMSSM). We restrict the parameter space such that the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is always the lightest neutralino. In addition, we impose quasi Yukawa unification (QYU) at the grand unification scale (M_GUT). QYU strictly requires the ratios among the yukawa couplings as y_t/y_b ~ 1.2, y_tau/y_b ~ 1.4, and y_t/y_tau ~ 0.8. We find that the need of fine-tuning over the fundamental parameter space of QYU is in the acceptable range (Delta_EW <= 10^3), even if the universal boundary conditions are imposed at M_ GUT, in contrast to CMSSM and NUHM. UMSSM with the universal boundary conditions yields heavy stops (m_{stop} >~ 2.5 TeV), gluinos (m_gluino >~ 2 TeV), and squarks from the first two families (m_squarks >~ 4 TeV). Similarly the stau mass is bounded from below at about 1.5 TeV. Despite this heavy spectrum, we find Delta_EW >~ 300, which is much lower than that needed for the minimal supersymmetric models. In addition, UMSSM yield relatively small mu-term, and the LSP neutralio is mostly form by the Higgsinos of mass >~ 700 GeV. We obtain also bino-like dark matter (DM) of mass about 400 GeV. Wino is usually found to be heavier than Higgsinos and binos, but there is a small region where mu ~ M_1 ~ M_2 ~ 1 TeV. We also identify chargino-neutralino coannihilation channel and A-resonance solutions which reduce the relic abundance of LSP neutralino down to the ranges compatible with the current WMAP measurements.

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