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.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.015023;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0804.3560v3;
Publishing Information
- 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41001606
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BENCHMARKS; CERN LHC; CHIRALITY; LUMINOSITY; MASS; PAIR PRODUCTION; PARTICLE TRACKS; SPARTICLES; SUPERGRAVITY; SUPERSYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; STORAGE RINGS; SYMMETRY; SYNCHROTRONS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society