Collider signatures of minimal flavor mixing from stop decay length measurements
- Institut fuer Physik, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund (Germany)
We investigate the prospects to extract supersymmetric couplings from a decay length measurement at the LHC. Specifically, we exploit the opportunity of a light and long-lived stop which is pair-produced through gluinos in association with like-sign top quarks. Any observed finite value of the stop decay length strongly supports models in which flavor is broken in a minimal way solely by the standard model Yukawa couplings. We find that a 1 picosecond stop lifetime, dominated by t-tilde{yields}c{chi}{sup 0} decays, yields macroscopic transverse impact parameters of about 180 microns. If the lightest neutralino is predominantly Higgsino or very close in mass to the light stop, the stop lifetime even increases and allows to observe stop tracks and possibly secondary vertices directly. Measuring squark flavor violation with the stop decay length works also with a gravitino lightest supersymmetric particle if the neutralino is the next lightest supersymmetric particle. For this case, opportunities from t-tilde{yields}c{chi}{sup 0}{yields}c{gamma}G-tilde decays for very light gravitinos with mass < or approx. keV are pointed out.
- OSTI ID:
- 21313511
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 80, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.115016; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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