Published July 1, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Right sneutrinos and signals of a stable stop at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi-100 007 (India)
  • 2. Regional Centre for Accelerator-based Particle Physics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad-211 019 (India)

Description

We investigate charged tracks signals of a supersymmetric scenario, where the lighter stop is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle. It is found that such a next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle is stable on the scale of the detector at the CERN LHC if one has a right-chiral sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle. After identifying some benchmark points in the parameter space of a supergravity scenario with nonuniversal scalar masses, we study a few specific classes of signals, namely, stop pair production and gluino pair production followed by each decaying into a stop and a top. It is shown that proper kinematic cuts remove the backgrounds in each case, and an integrated luminosity of even 1 fb-1 is likely to yield copious events of the first kind, while a larger luminosity may be required for the other type. One can also aspire to reconstruct the gluino mass, using the ''visible'' stable next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle tracks.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 015023-015023.13
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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