Publications

Publications by categories in reversed chronological order. Following HEP convention, order of authorship was determined alphabetically.

2026

  1. A Phase-Transition Portal to Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation
    Peisi Huang, Anibal D. Medina, Carlos E. M. Wagner, and Kairui Zhang
    Nov 2026
    arXiv
  2. String phenomenology from the landscape
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Shadman Salam, and Kairui Zhang
    Oct 2026
    arXiv
  3. The LUX-ZEPLIN Event as Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Composite Dark Matter
    Jie Sheng and Kairui Zhang
    Sep 2026
    arXiv
  4. Natural SUSY with mixed axion/axino dark matter
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Lett. B, Sep 2026
    DOI arXiv
  5. pMSSM versus complete models and the excellent prospects for top-squark discovery at HL-LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, and Kairui Zhang
    JHEP, Sep 2026
    DOI arXiv
  6. WIMP dark matter from a natural discrete gauge symmetry in the Standard Model
    Jie Sheng, Tsutomu T. Yanagida, and Kairui Zhang
    JHEP, Sep 2026
    DOI arXiv
  7. Supersymmetry at High Luminosity LHC
    Kairui Zhang
    Jan 2026
    arXiv
  8. Natural supersymmetry at a muon collider
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Jessica Bolich, Dibyashree Sengupta, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2026
    DOI arXiv

2025

  1. Aspects of the WIMP quality problem and R-parity violation in natural supersymmetry with all axion dark matter
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Jessica Bolich, Dibyashree Sengupta, and Kairui Zhang
    JCAP, Jan 2025
    DOI arXiv
  2. Prospects for supersymmetry at High-Luminosity LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Jessica Bolich, Juhi Dutta, Dakotah Martinez, Shadman Salam, Dibyashree Sengupta, and Kairui Zhang
    Rev. Mod. Phys., Jan 2025
    DOI arXiv
  3. All axion dark matter from supersymmetric models
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Dibyashree Sengupta, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2025
    DOI arXiv
  4. Implications of Higgs mass for hidden sector SUSY breaking
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Jessica Bolich, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2025
    DOI arXiv
  5. Testable flavored TeV-scale resonant leptogenesis with MeV-GeV dark matter in a neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet model
    Peisi Huang and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2025
    DOI arXiv
  6. Living dangerously with decoupled first and second generation scalars: SUSY prospects at the LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2025
    DOI arXiv

2024

  1. Decoding the gaugino code, naturally, at high-lumi LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, and Kairui Zhang
    Particles, Jan 2024
    DOI arXiv
  2. Stau pairs from natural SUSY at high luminosity LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2024
    DOI arXiv
  3. Winos from natural SUSY at the high luminosity LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Xerxes Tata, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2024
    DOI arXiv

2023

  1. Top squarks from the landscape at high luminosity LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Juhi Dutta, Dibyashree Sengupta, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2023
    DOI arXiv
  2. Prospects for Charged Higgs Bosons in Natural SUSY Models at the High-Luminosity LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Xerxes Tata, and Kairui Zhang
    Symmetry, Jan 2023
    (Journal Cover)
    DOI arXiv
  3. Detecting Heavy Neutral SUSY Higgs Bosons Decaying to Sparticles at the High-Luminosity LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Xerxes Tata, and Kairui Zhang
    Symmetry, Jan 2023
    DOI arXiv
  4. Naturalness demands an answer: the imperative of natural SUSY at the HL-LHC
    Kairui Zhang
    Wisconsin U., Madison, Jan 2023

2022

  1. Prospects for Heavy Neutral SUSY HIGGS Scalars in the hMSSM and Natural SUSY at LHC Upgrades
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Xerxes Tata, and Kairui Zhang
    Symmetry, Jan 2022
    DOI arXiv