The LHC Confronts the pMSSM
Abstract
Here we explore the impact of current (7+8 TeV) and future (14 TeV) LHC searches on the range of viable sparticle spectra within the 19/20 – dimensional phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM). Considering both neutralino and gravitino LSPs, we compare our results with simplified model exclusion limits and describe important cases where the pMSSM results differ significantly from the simplified model descriptions. We also consider models that are poorly constrained by LHC data because of unusual decay topologies and/or displaced decays, and discuss ways to improve the LHC sensitivity in these scenarios. Finally, motivated by naturalness, we examine the sensitivity of current searches to models with light stops and to a specialized set of models with fine-tuning better than 1%. We show that the 14 TeV LHC will be a very powerful probe of natural pMSSM models.
- Authors:
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1280968
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 273-275; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 2405-6014
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Supersymmetry; MSSM; LHC
Citation Formats
Cahill-Rowley, Matthew. The LHC Confronts the pMSSM. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.075.
Cahill-Rowley, Matthew. The LHC Confronts the pMSSM. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.075
Cahill-Rowley, Matthew. Tue .
"The LHC Confronts the pMSSM". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.075. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1280968.
@article{osti_1280968,
title = {The LHC Confronts the pMSSM},
author = {Cahill-Rowley, Matthew},
abstractNote = {Here we explore the impact of current (7+8 TeV) and future (14 TeV) LHC searches on the range of viable sparticle spectra within the 19/20 – dimensional phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM). Considering both neutralino and gravitino LSPs, we compare our results with simplified model exclusion limits and describe important cases where the pMSSM results differ significantly from the simplified model descriptions. We also consider models that are poorly constrained by LHC data because of unusual decay topologies and/or displaced decays, and discuss ways to improve the LHC sensitivity in these scenarios. Finally, motivated by naturalness, we examine the sensitivity of current searches to models with light stops and to a specialized set of models with fine-tuning better than 1%. We show that the 14 TeV LHC will be a very powerful probe of natural pMSSM models.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.075},
journal = {Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings},
number = C,
volume = 273-275,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {5}
}
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