Exploring the nearly degenerate stop region with sbottom decays
Abstract
A light stop with mass almost degenerate with the lightest neutralino has important connections with both naturalness and dark matter relic abundance. This region is also very hard to probe at colliders. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of searching for such stop particles at the LHC from sbottom decays, focusing on two channels with final states 2ℓ+EmissT2ℓ+ETmiss and 1b1ℓ+E$$miss\atop{T}$$1b1ℓ+E$$miss\atop{T}$$. We also found that, if the lightest sbottom has mass around or below 1 TeV and has a significant branching ratio to decay to stop and W($$\tilde{b}$$→$$\tilde{t}$$W), a stop almost degenerate with neutralino can be excluded up to about 500-600 GeV at the 13 TeV LHC with 300 fb-1 data. The searches we propose are complementary to other SUSY searches at the LHC and could have the best sensitivity to the stop-bino coannihilation region. Finally, since they involve final states which have already been used in LHC searches, a reinterpretation of the search results already has sensitivity. Further optimization could deliver the full potential of these channels.
- Authors:
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- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Walter Burke Inst. for Theoretical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Center for Future High Energy Physics; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst., Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1393473
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0011632; SC0013642
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2017; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Supersymmetry Phenomenology
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An, Haipeng, Gu, Jiayin, and Wang, Lian-Tao. Exploring the nearly degenerate stop region with sbottom decays. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2017)084.
An, Haipeng, Gu, Jiayin, & Wang, Lian-Tao. Exploring the nearly degenerate stop region with sbottom decays. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2017)084
An, Haipeng, Gu, Jiayin, and Wang, Lian-Tao. Thu .
"Exploring the nearly degenerate stop region with sbottom decays". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2017)084. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1393473.
@article{osti_1393473,
title = {Exploring the nearly degenerate stop region with sbottom decays},
author = {An, Haipeng and Gu, Jiayin and Wang, Lian-Tao},
abstractNote = {A light stop with mass almost degenerate with the lightest neutralino has important connections with both naturalness and dark matter relic abundance. This region is also very hard to probe at colliders. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of searching for such stop particles at the LHC from sbottom decays, focusing on two channels with final states 2ℓ+EmissT2ℓ+ETmiss and 1b1ℓ+E$miss\atop{T}$1b1ℓ+E$miss\atop{T}$. We also found that, if the lightest sbottom has mass around or below 1 TeV and has a significant branching ratio to decay to stop and W($\tilde{b}$→$\tilde{t}$W), a stop almost degenerate with neutralino can be excluded up to about 500-600 GeV at the 13 TeV LHC with 300 fb-1 data. The searches we propose are complementary to other SUSY searches at the LHC and could have the best sensitivity to the stop-bino coannihilation region. Finally, since they involve final states which have already been used in LHC searches, a reinterpretation of the search results already has sensitivity. Further optimization could deliver the full potential of these channels.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP04(2017)084},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 4,
volume = 2017,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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