Publications

List of Recent Publications

Physics should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler

-- A. Einstein


2024


Nonthermal heavy dark matter from a first-order phase transition

Gian Giudice, Hyun Min Lee, Alex Pomarol, Bibhushan Shakya,

arXiv:2403.03252 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-24-02. 


Muon g-2 and proton lifetime in SUSY SU(5) GUTs with split superpartners

Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Sung-Bo Sim

arXiv:2402.04850 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-24-01. 


2023


Peccei-Quinn inflation at the pole and axion kinetic misalignment

Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara, Myeong-Jung Seong, Jun-Ho Song

arXiv:2310.17710 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-23-05


Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Freeze-in Dark Matter

Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Kimiko Yamashita

arXiv:2308.14629 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-23-04. 


Higgs inflation at the pole

Simon Clery, Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara

arXiv:2306.07767 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-23-03.


Graceful exist from inflation and reheating with twin waterfalls

Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara

arXiv:2304.08686 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-23-02. 


Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter

Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Kimiko Yamashita

arXiv:2302.02879 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-23-01. 



2022


On the Weyl gravity extension of Higgs inflation

Shuntaro Aoki, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:2207.05484 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-22-06.


Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone inflation with twin waterfalls

Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara

arXiv:2206.05523 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-22-05. 


The SU(2)_D lepton portals for muon g-2, W boson mass and dark matter

Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara, Kimiko Yamashita

arXiv:2205.04016 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-22-04. 


A Model of Vector-like leptons for the muon g-2 and the W boson mass

Hyun Min Lee, Kimiko Yamashita

arXiv:2204.05024 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-22-03. 


Models for Self-resonant Dark Matter

Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Bin Zhu,

arXiv:2202.13717 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-22-02.


Inflation and Dark Matter Freeze-in in the Higgs-R^2 Inflation 

Shuntaro Aoki, Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara, Kimiko Yamashita,

arXiv:2202.13063 [hep-th], CAU-THEP-22-01.


2021


Towards a Model of Quarks and Leptons

Y. H. Ahn, Sin Kyu Kang, Hyun Min Lee, 

 arXiv: 2112.13392 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-21-07.


Seesaw lepton masses and muon g-2 from heavy vector-like leptons

Hyun Min Lee, Jiseon Song, Kimiko Yamashita

 arXiv: 2110.09942 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-21-06.


Self-resonant Dark Matter

Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Bin Zhu,

arXiv:2108.06278 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-21-05.


Inflation and Supersymmetry Breaking in Higgs-R^2 Supergravity

Shuntaro Aoki, Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara,

arXiv:2108.00222 [hep-th], CAU-THEP-21-04.


Cosmology of Linear Higgs-Sigma Models with Conformal Invariance

Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara,

arXiv:2104.10390 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-21-03.


Leptoquark option for B-meson anomalies and leptonic signatures

Hyun Min Lee, 

arXiv: 2104.02982 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-21-02.


Flux-mediated Dark Matter

Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee, Adriana Menkara, Jiseon Song,

arXiv: 2103.07592 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-21-01.



2020


Exothermic dark mesons in light of electron recoil excess at XENON1T

Soo-Min Choi, Hyun Min Lee, Bin Zhu, 

arXiv:2012.03713 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-20-10.


Dark mesons as self-interacting dark matter

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 2008.13090 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-20-09, Prepared for Review in EPJ-ST.



Flavor and CP-violating Higgs sector in two Higgs doublet models with U(1)'

Ligong Bian, Hyun Min Lee, Chan Beom Park,

arXiv: 2008.03629 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-20-08


Exothermic Dark Matter for XENON1T Excess

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 2006.13183 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2020-105, CAU-THEP-20-07


The Clockwork Standard Model

Yoo-Jin Kang, Soonbin Kim, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 2006.03043 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2020-087, CAU-THEP-20-06


Connecting between inflation and dark matter physics in models with gauged Z3 symmetry

Soo-Min Choi, Jinsu Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Bin Zhu,

arXiv: 2003.11823 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2020-041, CAU-THEP-20-05


Effective theory for self-interacting dark matter and massive spin-2 mediators

Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 2003.09290 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2020-033, CAU-THEP-20-04


Dark matter self-interactions from spin-2 mediators

Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 2002.12779 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2020-001, CAU-THEP-20-03


Beyond the Starobinsky model for inflation

D.-Y. Cheong, Hyun Min Lee, Seong Chan Park,

arXiv: 2002.07981 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2020-022, CAU-THEP-20-02


Lightening Gravity-Mediated Dark Matter

Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:2001.04868 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2019-229, CAU-THEP-20-01



2019

The Selfish Higgs and Reheating

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1910.09171 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2019-172, CAU-THEP-19-06


Chaotic inflation with four-form couplings

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1908.05475 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2019-228, CAU-THEP-19-05


Relaxation of Higgs mass and cosmological constant with four-form fluxes and reheating

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1908.04252 [hep-ph], CERN-TH-2019-196, CAU-THEP-19-04


Lectures on Physics beyond the Standard Model

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1907.12409 [hep-ph], CAU-THEP-19-03


Vector SIMP dark matter with approximate custodial symmetry

Soo-Min Choi, Hyun Min Lee, Yann Mambrini, Mathias Pierre,

arXiv:1904.04109 [hep-ph],  CAU-THEP-19-02


Unitary inflaton as decaying dark matter

Soo-Min Choi, Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee, Kimiko Yamashita,

arXiv:1902.03781 [hep-ph],  CAU-THEP-19-01


2018

Axino abundances in high-scale supersymmetry

Ki-Young Choi, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1810.00293 [hep-ph]


Weyl symmetry and its spontaneous breaking in Standard Model and inflation

Dumitru Ghilencea, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1809.09174 [hep-th]


Lepto-Quark Portal Dark Matter

Soo-Min Choi, Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee, Tae-Gyu Ro,

arXiv:1807.06547 [hep-ph]


Dark Matter Direct Detection from new interactions in models with spin-two mediators

A. Carrillo-Monteverde, Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee, Myeonghun Park, Veronica Sanz

arXiv: 1803.02144 [hep-ph]


Light inflaton and Higgs inflation

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 1802.06174 [hep-ph]


Unitarizing SIMP scenario with dark vector resonances

Soo-Min Choi, Pyungwon Ko, Hyun Min Lee, Alexander Natale,

arXiv: 1801.07726 [hep-ph]


2017

B-meson anomalies and Higgs physics in flavored U(1)' model

Ligong Bian, Hyun Min Lee, Chan Beom Park,

arXiv: 1711.08930 [hep-ph]


Gauged U(1) Clockwork Theory

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 1708.03564 [hep-ph]


A minimal flavored U(1)′ for B-meson anomalies

Ligong Bian, Soo-Min Choi, Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 1707.04811 [hep-ph]


Vector SIMP dark matter

Soo-Min Choi, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Hyun Min Lee, Yann Mambrini, Hitoshi Murayama, Mathias Pierre,

arXiv: 1707.01434 [hep-ph]


Wilson lines and UV sensitivity in magnetic compactifications

Dumitru Ghilencea, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1703.10418 [hep-th]


Cosmic abundances of SIMP dark matter

Soo-Min Choi, Hyun Min Lee, Min-Seok Seo,

arXiv: 1702.07860 [hep-ph]


2016

On thermal production of self-interacting dark matter

Soo-Min Choi, Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv: 1610.04748 [hep-ph]


Confronting the diphoton resonance with cascade decays in warped gravity

Barry M. Dillon, Chengcheng Han, Hyun Min Lee, Myeonghun Park,

arXiv:1606.07171 [hep-ph]


Diphoton Bounds on supersymmetric effective operators from heavy diphoton searches

Dumitru Ghilencea, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1606.04131 [hep-ph]


Diphoton resonance confronts dark matter

Soo-Min Choi, Yoo-Jin Kang, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1605.04804 [hep-ph]


Reheating the Universe at criticality

Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1602.04859 [hep-ph]


Inflection point inflation and reheating

Soo-Min Choi, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1601.05979 [hep-ph]


Resonant SIMP dark matter

Soo-Min Choi, Hyun Min Lee,

arXiv:1601.03566 [hep-ph]


2015

The diphoton resonance as a gravity mediator of dark matter

Chengcheng Han, Hyun Min Lee, Myeonghun Park, Veronica Sanz

arXiv:1512.06376 [hep-ph]


Models for SIMP dark matter and dark photon

Hyun Min Lee, Min-Seok Seo

arXiv:1510.05116 [hep-ph]


ATLAS Diboson Excesses Demystified in Effective Field Theory Approach

Doojin Kim, Kyoungchul Kong, Hyun Min Lee, Seong Chan Park

arXiv:1507.06312 [hep-ph]

Dark Matter Benchmark Models for Early LHC Run-2 Searches: Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum

 The final report of the ATLAS-CMS Dark Matter Forum

arXiv:1507.00966[hep-ex]

SIMP dark matter with gauged Z_3 symmetry

Hyun Min Lee, Soo-Min Choi. May. 5. 2015. 17pp.

arXiv:1505.00960 [hep-ph]


Communication with SIMP dark mesons via Z′-portal

Hyun Min Lee, Min-Seok Seo. Apr. 3. 2015. 15pp.

arXiv:1504.00745 [hep-ph]


Supersymmetric Higgs-portal and X-ray lines

Hyun Min Lee, Chan Beom Park, Myeonghun Park. Jan. 22. 2015. 15pp. 

arXiv:1501.05479 [hep-ph]


2014

Stop and Sbottom LSP with R-parity Violation

Eung Jin Chun, Sunghoon Jung, Hyun Min Lee, Seong Chan Park. Aug 19, 2014. 17 pp. 

arXiv:1408.4508 [hep-ph]


Magnetic dark matter for the X-ray line at 3.55 keV

​Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang U.). Apr 22, 2014. 12 pp. 

arXiv:1404.5446 [hep-ph]


Chaotic inflation and unitarity problem

Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang U.). Mar 21, 2014. 9 pp. 

arXiv:1403.5602 [hep-ph]


Cluster X-ray line at 3.5keV from axion-like dark matter

Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang U.), Seong Chan Park (Sungkyunkwan U.), Wan-Il Park (Korea Inst. Advanced Study, Seoul). Mar 4, 2014. 13 pp. 

KIAS-P14012 

arXiv:1403.0865 [astro-ph.CO]


Starobinsky-like inflation from induced gravity

Gian F. Giudice (CERN & Intl. Solvay Inst., Brussels), Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang U.). Feb 10, 2014. 5 pp. 

Published in Phys.Lett. B733 (2014) 58-62 

CERN-PH-TH-2014-025 

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.04.020 

arXiv:1402.2129 [hep-ph]


Gravity-mediated (or Composite) Dark Matter Confronts Astrophysical Data

Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang U.), Myeonghun Park (Tokyo U., IPMU & CERN), Veronica Sanz (Sussex U.). Jan 21, 2014. 27 pp. 

Published in JHEP 1405 (2014) 063 

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2014)063 

arXiv:1401.5301 [hep-ph]