Prompt signals and displaced vertices in sparticle searches for next-to-minimal gauge-mediated supersymmetric models
Abstract
Here, we study the LHC phenomenology of the next-to-minimal model of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking, both for Run I and Run II. The Higgs phenomenology of the model is consistent with observations: a 125 GeV standard model-like Higgs which mixes with singlet-like state of mass around 90 GeV that provides a 2 \sigma excess at LEP II. The model possesses regions of parameter space where a longer-lived lightest neutralino decays in the detector into a gravitino and a b-jet pair or a tau pair resulting in potential displaced vertex signatures. We investigate current bounds on sparticle masses and the discovery potential of the model, both via conventional searches and via searches for displaced vertices. The searches based on promptly decaying sparticles currently give a lower limit on the gluino mass 1080 GeV and could be sensitive up to 1900 GeV with 100 fb -1, whereas the current displaced vertex searches cannot probe this model due to b-quarks in the final state. We also show how the displaced vertex cuts might be relaxed in order to improve signal efficiency, while simultaneously applied prompt cuts reduce background, resulting in a much better sensitivity than either strategy alone and motivating a fully fledged experimentalmore »
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1315851
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1414763
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields Journal Volume: 76 Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1434-6044
- Publisher:
- Springer Science + Business Media
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Allanach, B. C., Badziak, Marcin, Cottin, Giovanna, Desai, Nishita, Hugonie, Cyril, and Ziegler, Robert. Prompt signals and displaced vertices in sparticle searches for next-to-minimal gauge-mediated supersymmetric models. Germany: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4330-3.
Allanach, B. C., Badziak, Marcin, Cottin, Giovanna, Desai, Nishita, Hugonie, Cyril, & Ziegler, Robert. Prompt signals and displaced vertices in sparticle searches for next-to-minimal gauge-mediated supersymmetric models. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4330-3
Allanach, B. C., Badziak, Marcin, Cottin, Giovanna, Desai, Nishita, Hugonie, Cyril, and Ziegler, Robert. Thu .
"Prompt signals and displaced vertices in sparticle searches for next-to-minimal gauge-mediated supersymmetric models". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4330-3.
@article{osti_1315851,
title = {Prompt signals and displaced vertices in sparticle searches for next-to-minimal gauge-mediated supersymmetric models},
author = {Allanach, B. C. and Badziak, Marcin and Cottin, Giovanna and Desai, Nishita and Hugonie, Cyril and Ziegler, Robert},
abstractNote = {Here, we study the LHC phenomenology of the next-to-minimal model of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking, both for Run I and Run II. The Higgs phenomenology of the model is consistent with observations: a 125 GeV standard model-like Higgs which mixes with singlet-like state of mass around 90 GeV that provides a 2 \sigma excess at LEP II. The model possesses regions of parameter space where a longer-lived lightest neutralino decays in the detector into a gravitino and a b-jet pair or a tau pair resulting in potential displaced vertex signatures. We investigate current bounds on sparticle masses and the discovery potential of the model, both via conventional searches and via searches for displaced vertices. The searches based on promptly decaying sparticles currently give a lower limit on the gluino mass 1080 GeV and could be sensitive up to 1900 GeV with 100 fb -1, whereas the current displaced vertex searches cannot probe this model due to b-quarks in the final state. We also show how the displaced vertex cuts might be relaxed in order to improve signal efficiency, while simultaneously applied prompt cuts reduce background, resulting in a much better sensitivity than either strategy alone and motivating a fully fledged experimental study.},
doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4330-3},
journal = {European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields},
number = 9,
volume = 76,
place = {Germany},
year = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4330-3
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