Phenomenological implications of low energy supersymmetry breaking
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Physics Dept.
- Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Santa Cruz Inst. for Particle Physics
- Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States). Physics Dept.
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
The experimental signatures for low energy supersymmetry breaking are presented. The lightest standard model superpartner is unstable and decays to its partner plus a Goldstino, G. For a supersymmetry breaking scale below a few 1,000 TeV this decay can take place within a detector, leading to very distinctive signatures. If a neutralino is the lightest standard model superpartner it decays by {chi}{sub 1}{sup 0} {r_arrow} {gamma} + G, and if kinematically accessible by {chi}{sub 1}{sup 0} {r_arrow} (Z{sup 0}, h{sup 0}, H{sup 0}, A{sup 0}) + G. These decays can give rise to displaced vertices. Alternately, if a slepton is the lightest standard model superpartner it decays by {tilde l} {r_arrow} l + G. This can be seen as a greater than minimum ionizing charged particle track, possibly with a kink to a minimum ionizing track.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 486212
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-7236; CONF-960575-5; ON: DE97007670; TRN: 97:011352
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International workshop on supersymmetry and unification of fundamental interactions (SUSY), College Park, MD (United States), 29 May - 1 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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