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Title: Opening Up the Compressed Region of Top Squark Searches at 13 TeV LHC

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [2]
  1. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

Light top superpartners play a key role in stabilizing the electroweak scale in supersymmetric theories. For R-parity conserved supersymmetric models, traditional searches are not sensitive to the compressed regions. In this Letter, we propose a new method targeting this region, with top squark and neutralino mass splitting ranging from mt - mχ ≳ mt to about 20 GeV. In particular, we focus on the signal process in which a pair of top squarks are produced in association with a hard jet, and we define a new observable RM whose distribution has a peak in this compressed region. The position of the peak is closely correlated with mt. Further, we show that for the 13 TeV LHC with a luminosity of 3000 fb-1, this analysis can extend the reach of the top squark in the compressed region to mt around 800 GeV.

Research Organization:
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011632; SC0003930
OSTI ID:
1599721
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1224667
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 18; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 42 works
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