Jörn Kersten Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics at the University of Bergen (Department of Physics and Technology) Phone: +47-555-82700 Email: joern.kersten AT uib.no Office: Allégaten 55, Room 309 Smail: Department of Physics and Technology University of Bergen Postboks 7803 5020 Bergen Norway

Research Interests

• SUSY phenomenology (supersymmetry breaking, superpartner mass spectrum, LHC phenomenology, flavour constraints)
• Astroparticle physics and cosmology (Dark Matter, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Baryogenesis, ...)
• Fermion mass models (GUTs, family symmetries, ...)
• Neutrinos
• Renormalization, in particular the running of neutrino masses and mixing parameters
• Dynamical symmetry breaking

Students Wanted

• If you are thinking about writing your Master's thesis in theoretical particle physics, please write me an email or visit me in my office.

Publications

• Trilinear-Augmented Gaugino Mediation
  J. Heisig, J. Kersten, N. Murphy, I. Strümke
  arXiv:1701.02313 [hep-ph]
   
• Suppressing Structure Formation at Dwarf Galaxy Scales and Below: Late Kinetic Decoupling as a Compelling Alternative to Warm Dark Matter
  T. Bringmann, H. T. Ihle, J. Kersten and P. Walia
  arXiv:1603.04884 [hep-ph]
   
• Decoherence and Oscillations of Supernova Neutrinos
  Jörn Kersten, Alexei Yu. Smirnov
  arXiv:1512.09068 [hep-ph]
   
• Flavour, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Dark Matter: State of the Art and Future Prospects
  Giulia Ricciardi et al.
  arXiv:1507.05029 [hep-ph]
   
• Understanding the Correlation between $(g-2)_\mu$ and $\mu \to e \gamma$ in the MSSM
  Jörn Kersten, Jae-hyeon Park, Dominik Stöckinger, Liliana Velasco-Sevilla
  JHEP 1408 (2014), 118, arXiv:1405.2972 [hep-ph]
   
• Tight Bonds between Sterile Neutrinos and Dark Matter
  Torsten Bringmann, Jasper Hasenkamp, Jörn Kersten
  JCAP 1407 (2014), 042, arXiv:1312.4947 [hep-ph]
   
• A Survey for Low Stau Yields in the MSSM
  Jan Heisig, Jörn Kersten, Boris Panes, Tania Robens
  JHEP 1404 (2014), 053, arXiv:1310.2825 [hep-ph]
   
• Dark Radiation from Particle Decay: Cosmological Constraints and Opportunities
  Jasper Hasenkamp, Jörn Kersten
  JCAP 1308 (2013), 024, arXiv:1212.4160 [hep-ph]
   
• Coherence of Supernova Neutrinos
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of NOW 2012 (September 9-16, 2012, Conca Specchiulla, Italy), Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 237-238 (2013), 342-344
   
• Flavor Constraints on Scenarios with Two or Three Heavy Squark Generations
  Jörn Kersten, Liliana Velasco-Sevilla
  Eur. Phys. J. C73 (2013), 2405, arXiv:1207.3016 [hep-ph]
   
• Long-Lived Staus from Strong Production in a Simplified Model Approach
  Jan Heisig, Jörn Kersten
  Phys. Rev. D86 (2012), 055020, arXiv:1203.1581 [hep-ph]
   
• Supersymmetric Musings on the Predictivity of Family Symmetries
  Kenji Kadota, Jörn Kersten, Liliana Velasco-Sevilla
  Proceedings of FLASY 2011 (July 11-14, 2011, Valencia, Spain)
  arXiv:1201.5525 [hep-ph]
   
• Flavour Issues for String-Motivated Heavy Scalar Spectra with a Low Gluino Mass: The G2-MSSM Case
  Kenji Kadota, Gordon Kane, Jörn Kersten, Liliana Velasco-Sevilla
  Eur. Phys. J. C72 (2012), 2004, arXiv:1107.3105 [hep-ph]
   
• Production of Long-Lived Staus in the Drell-Yan Process
  Jan Heisig, Jörn Kersten
  Phys. Rev. D84 (2011), 115009, arXiv:1106.0764 [hep-ph]
   
• Reconciling Supersymmetry and Thermal Leptogenesis by Entropy Production
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of the XLVIth Rencontres de Moriond (March 13-20, 2011, La Thuile, Italy), The Gioi Publishers VN-TG-11149-1 (2011), 263-268
   
• Dark and Visible Matter with Broken R-Parity and the Axion Multiplet
  Jasper Hasenkamp, Jörn Kersten
  Phys. Lett. B701 (2011), 660-666, arXiv:1103.6193 [hep-ph]
   
• Leptogenesis, Gravitino Dark Matter and Entropy Production
  Jasper Hasenkamp, Jörn Kersten
  Phys. Rev. D82 (2010), 115029, arXiv:1008.1740 [hep-ph]
   
• Supersymmetric Musings on the Predictivity of Family Symmetries
  Kenji Kadota, Jörn Kersten, Liliana Velasco-Sevilla
  Phys. Rev. D82 (2010), 085022, arXiv:1007.1532 [hep-ph]
   
• Constraints on Flavor Symmetries from Flavor Violation
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of SUSY 2009 (June 5-10, 2009, Boston, USA), AIP Conf. Proc. 1200 (2009), 912-915
   
• Gravitino Dark Matter in Gravity Mediation
  Jörn Kersten, Oleg Lebedev
  Phys. Lett. B678 (2009), 481-484, arXiv:0905.3711 [hep-ph]
   
• The Gravitino-Stau Scenario and BBN
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of SUSY 2008 (June 16-21, 2008, Seoul, South Korea), AIP Conf. Proc. 1078 (2008), 497-499
   
• The Gravitino-Stau Scenario after Catalyzed Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
  Jörn Kersten, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
  JCAP 0801 (2008), 011, arXiv:0710.4528 [hep-ph]
   
• Can LHC Test the See-Saw Mechanism?
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of SUSY 2007 (July 26 - August 1, 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany), 772-775, arXiv:0710.2482 [hep-ph]
   
• Cosmological Constraints on Gaugino Mediation
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of the XLIInd Rencontres de Moriond (March 10-17, 2007, La Thuile, Italy), The Gioi Publishers VN-TG-12187-1 (2007), 275-280
   
• Right-Handed Neutrinos at LHC and the Mechanism of Neutrino Mass Generation
  Jörn Kersten, Alexei Yu. Smirnov
  Phys. Rev. D76 (2007), 073005, arXiv:0705.3221 [hep-ph]
   
• SUSY at the Pole
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of NOW 2006 (September 9-16, 2006, Conca Specchiulla, Italy), Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 168 (2007), 277-279, hep-ph/0612195
   
• Dark Matter from Gaugino Mediation
  Wilfried Buchmüller, Laura Covi, Jörn Kersten, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
  JCAP 0611 (2006), 007, hep-ph/0609142
   
• Squarks and Sleptons between Branes and Bulk - Gaugino Mediation and Gravitino Dark Matter in an SO(10) Orbifold GUT
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of the XLIst Rencontres de Moriond (March 11-18, 2006, La Thuile, Italy), The Gioi Publishers VN-TG-5176-1 (2006), 194-199, hep-ph/0605171
   
• Long-Lived Staus at Neutrino Telescopes
  Markus Ahlers, Jörn Kersten, Andreas Ringwald
  JCAP 0607 (2006), 005, hep-ph/0604188
   
• Squarks and Sleptons between Branes and Bulk
  Wilfried Buchmüller, Jörn Kersten, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
  JHEP 0602 (2006), 069, hep-ph/0512152
   
• Theory of Neutrinos: A White Paper
  R.N. Mohapatra et al.
  Rept. Prog. Phys. 70 (2007), 1757-1867, hep-ph/0510213
   
• Physics at a Fermilab Proton Driver
  M.G. Albrow et al.
  hep-ex/0509019
   
• The Gravitino in Gaugino Mediation
  Wilfried Buchmüller, Koichi Hamaguchi, Jörn Kersten
  Phys. Lett. B632 (2006), 366-370, hep-ph/0506105
   
• Running Neutrino Mass Parameters in See-Saw Scenarios
  Stefan Antusch, Jörn Kersten, Manfred Lindner, Michael Ratz, Michael Andreas Schmidt
  JHEP 0503 (2005), 024, hep-ph/0501272
   
• Theory of Neutrinos
  R.N. Mohapatra et al.
  hep-ph/0412099
   
• Renormalization Group Evolution of Neutrino Mixings and Applications
  Jörn Kersten
  Proceedings of SUSY 2004 (June 17-23, 2004, Tsukuba, Japan), KEK Proceedings 2004-12, 773-776
   
• Stability of Texture Zeros under Radiative Corrections in See-Saw Models
  Claudia Hagedorn, Jörn Kersten, Manfred Lindner
  Phys. Lett. B597 (2004), 63-72, hep-ph/0406103
   
• Is there Maximal Mixing in the Lepton Sector?
  Stefan Antusch, Patrick Huber, Jörn Kersten, Thomas Schwetz, Walter Winter
  Phys. Rev. D70 (2004), 097302, hep-ph/0404268
   
• White Paper Report on Using Nuclear Reactors to Search for a Value of Theta 13
  K. Anderson et al.
  hep-ex/0402041
   
• Running Neutrino Masses, Mixings and CP Phases: Analytical Results and Phenomenological Consequences
  Stefan Antusch, Jörn Kersten, Manfred Lindner, Michael Ratz
  Nucl. Phys. B674 (2003), 401-433, hep-ph/0305273
   
• Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking by a Neutrino Condensate
  Stefan Antusch, Jörn Kersten, Manfred Lindner, Michael Ratz
  Nucl. Phys. B658 (2003), 203-216, hep-ph/0211385
   
• Renormalization Group Evolution of Neutrino Mass Parameters
  Stefan Antusch, Jörn Kersten, Michael Ratz
  Proceedings of Neutrino 2002 (May 25-30, 2002, München, Germany), Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 118 (2003), 477
   
• The LMA Solution from Bimaximal Lepton Mixing at the GUT Scale by Renormalization Group Running
  Stefan Antusch, Jörn Kersten, Manfred Lindner, Michael Ratz
  Phys. Lett. B544 (2002), 1-10, hep-ph/0206078
   
• Neutrino Mass Matrix Running for Non-Degenerate See-Saw Scales
  Stefan Antusch, Jörn Kersten, Manfred Lindner, Michael Ratz
  Phys. Lett. B538 (2002), 87-95, hep-ph/0203233
   
• Neutrino Mass Operator Renormalization in Two Higgs Doublet Models and the MSSM
  Stefan Antusch, Manuel Drees, Jörn Kersten, Manfred Lindner, Michael Ratz
  Phys. Lett. B525 (2002), 130-134, hep-ph/0110366
   
• Neutrino Mass Operator Renormalization Revisited
  Stefan Antusch, Manuel Drees, Jörn Kersten, Manfred Lindner, Michael Ratz
  Phys. Lett. B519 (2001), 238-242, hep-ph/0108005

Citations: List and Summary from INSPIRE

Diploma Thesis

Renormalization Group Evolution of Neutrino Masses

Ph.D. Thesis

Quantum Corrections to the Lepton Flavour Structure and Applications

(In the group of Prof. Manfred Lindner at the Physics Department of TU München)

My Former Junior Research Group “SUSY Phenomenology - From the Early Universe to the LHC Era” in Hamburg

• Group homepage
• Members:
  • Jasper Hasenkamp
  • Jan Heisig
  • Jörn Kersten
  • Miha Nemevšek
  • Boris Panes
  • Liliana Velasco Sevilla (visiting researcher)