Published October 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Reconstruction of the left-chiral tau sneutrino in supersymmetry with a right sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle

  • 1. Regional Center for Accelerator-based Particle Physics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Allahabad-211 019 (India)

Description

We have considered a supersymmetric scenario in which the minimal supersymmetric standard model is augmented with a right-chiral neutrino superfield for each generation. Such a scenario can have a lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) dominated by the right-chiral sneutrino state and the lighter stau as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP). This can easily be motivated by assuming a high-scale framework of supersymmetry breaking like minimal supergravity (mSUGRA). Because of the extremely small neutrino Yukawa coupling, the decay of the NLSP to the LSP is suppressed and, consequently, the NLSP - here the lighter stau mass eigenstate -becomes stable at the length scale of the detector. The collider signal in this case consists of charged tracks of massive stable particles in the muon chamber. Following up on our earlier studies on neutralino and chargino reconstruction in such a scenario, we have shown that the kinematical information obtained from these charged tracks allows us to reconstruct the left-chiral tau sneutrino as well over a significant region of the mSUGRA parameter space. Two methods for reconstruction are suggested and their relative merits are discussed.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 075020-075020.10
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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