Leptonic signatures for SUSY at the LHC

Journal Article · Wed Feb 10 04:00:00 EST 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3327626· OSTI ID:21371529

Baer, Howard ^[1]

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1. Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 (United States)

Most models of weak scale supersymmetry (SUSY) predict observable rates for production of SUSY matter at the CERN LHC. The SUSY collider events are expected to be rich in jets, isolated (and non-isolated) leptons and missing E{sub T}. After first discussing the merits of mixed axion/axino vs. neutralino cold dark matter in SUSY models, I then survey prospects for detecting SUSY matter at the LHC via leptonic signatures. In the paradigm mSUGRA model, cascade decays of gluinos and squarks should yield high rates for multi-jet plus multi-lepton events, allowing values of m{sub g}-tildeapprox3(1.8) TeV to be probed for m{sub q}-tilde{approx_equal}m{sub g}-tilde (m{sub q}-tilde>>m{sub g}-tilde) with 100 fb{sup -1} of integrated luminosity. Direct production of gauginos and sleptons should also be possible in limited regions of parameter space. Even in the first year of LHC running, observable signals in multi-muon plus jets channel (without cutting on missing E{sub T}) can occur for interesting ranges of parameters. The highly motivated Yukawa unified SUSY models - where the dark matter is expected to be of mixed axion/axino type - should likely be testable in the first year of LHC running due to large rates for gluino pair production followed by cascade decays.

• OSTI ID: 21371529
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1200; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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