Hunting Squarks in Higgsino LSP scenarios at the LHC

Autor: Arganda, Ernesto, Delgado, Antonio, Morales, Roberto A., Quirós, Mariano
Rok vydání: 2021
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: The assumption that strongly interacting sparticles will decay directly to the LSP plus jets breaks down in situations where those decays are Yukawa suppressed. That occurs when producing the first two generations of squarks and when, at the same time, there are several electroweakinos lighter than those squarks. In this paper we analyze the signal of pair production of squarks that subsequently decay to an intermediate neutralino ($\tilde\chi_3^0$) plus jets. The neutralino will then decay to the LSP (mainly higgsino) and a Higgs. We have simulated the events and designed a discovery strategy based on a signal of two jets, four $b$-quarks and missing transverse energy. We obtain very promising values for the LHC sensitivity at 14 TeV and 300 fb$^{-1}$.
Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables. Corrections of typos and references added
Databáze: arXiv