Higgs mass from D-terms: a litmus test

This essay illustrates how Donald Trump engaged in what I call “populist crisis rhetoric” throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and coinciding 2020 U.S. presidential campaign cycle. By performing a critical rhetorical analysis of textual fragments surrounding how Trump addressed the preventative measure of mask-wearing, I show how he rejected the role of comforter-in-chief and instead opted for the role of victim-in-chief. Specifically, turning the bare face into a litmus test of Trump loyalism, his rhetoric suggested that masks threatened masculinity and functioned as a form of anti-choice bodily oppression.

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Automated Synthesis of Comprehensive Memory Model Litmus Test Suites

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS '17 ◽

10.1145/3037697.3037723 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Daniel Lustig ◽

Andrew Wright ◽

Alexandros Papakonstantinou ◽

Olivier Giroux

Keyword(s):

Memory Model ◽

Automated Synthesis ◽

Litmus Test ◽

Test Suites

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LIGHT COMPOSITE HIGGS: LCH @ LHC

International Journal of Modern Physics A ◽

10.1142/s0217751x05029162 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 20 (27) ◽

pp. 6133-6148 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

FRANCESCO SANNINO

Keyword(s):

Gauge Group ◽

Higgs Mass ◽

Cold Dark Matter ◽

Precision Measurements ◽

Chiral Phase ◽

Symmetric Representation ◽

Composite Higgs ◽

Higher Dimensional ◽

The One ◽

Intrinsic Scale

Here I summarize some of the salient features of technicolor theories with technifermions in higher dimensional representations of the technicolor gauge group. The expected phase diagram as function of number of flavors and colors for the two index (anti)symmetric representation of the gauge group is reviewed. After having constructed the simplest walking technicolor theory one can show that it is not at odds with the precision measurements. The simplest theory also requires, for consistency, a fourth family of heavy leptons. The latter may result in an interesting signature at LHC. In the case of a fourth family of leptons with ordinary lepton hypercharge the new heavy neutrino can be a natural candidate of cold dark matter. New theories will also be proposed in which the critical number of flavors needed to enter the conformal window is higher than in the one with fermions in the two-index symmetric representation, but lower than in the walking technicolor theories with fermions only in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. Due to the near conformal/chiral phase transition the composite Higgs is very light compared to the intrinsic scale of the technicolor theory. For the two technicolor theory the composite Higgs mass is predicted not to exceed 150 GeV.

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The Higgs mass coincidence problem

Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings ◽

10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.422 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 273-275 ◽

pp. 2451-2453

Author(s):

E. Torrente-Lujan

Keyword(s):

Higgs Mass ◽

Coincidence Problem

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