Searching for light neutralinos with a displaced vertex at the LHC

Fuente: arXiv
Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Cottin, Giovanna, Helo, Juan Carlos, Hernández-Pinto, Fabián, Neill, Nicolás A., Wang, Zeren Simon
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866913392800825344
author Cottin, Giovanna
Helo, Juan Carlos
Hernández-Pinto, Fabián
Neill, Nicolás A.
Wang, Zeren Simon
author_facet Cottin, Giovanna
Helo, Juan Carlos
Hernández-Pinto, Fabián
Neill, Nicolás A.
Wang, Zeren Simon
contents We study a bino-like light neutralino ($\tilde χ_1^0$) produced at the LHC from the decay of a scalar lepton ($\tilde e_L$) through the process $pp\to \tilde e_{L} \to e\tilde χ_1^0$ in the context of R-parity-violating (RPV) supersymmetry where $\tilde χ_1^0$ is the lightest supersymmetric particle. For small masses and RPV couplings, the neutralino is naturally long-lived and its decay products can be identified as displaced tracks. Following existing searches, we propose a displaced-vertex search strategy for such a light neutralino with a single RPV coupling switched on, $λ'_{111}$, in the mass range $10\,\mbox{GeV} \lesssim m_{\tilde χ_1^0}\lesssim 230\,\mbox{GeV}$. We perform Monte Carlo simulations and conclude that at the high-luminosity LHC, the proposed search can probe values of $λ'_{111}$ down to two orders of magnitude smaller than current bounds and up to 40 times stronger than projected limits from monolepton searches.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2208_12818
institution arXiv
publishDate 2022
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Searching for light neutralinos with a displaced vertex at the LHC
Cottin, Giovanna
Helo, Juan Carlos
Hernández-Pinto, Fabián
Neill, Nicolás A.
Wang, Zeren Simon
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
We study a bino-like light neutralino ($\tilde χ_1^0$) produced at the LHC from the decay of a scalar lepton ($\tilde e_L$) through the process $pp\to \tilde e_{L} \to e\tilde χ_1^0$ in the context of R-parity-violating (RPV) supersymmetry where $\tilde χ_1^0$ is the lightest supersymmetric particle. For small masses and RPV couplings, the neutralino is naturally long-lived and its decay products can be identified as displaced tracks. Following existing searches, we propose a displaced-vertex search strategy for such a light neutralino with a single RPV coupling switched on, $λ'_{111}$, in the mass range $10\,\mbox{GeV} \lesssim m_{\tilde χ_1^0}\lesssim 230\,\mbox{GeV}$. We perform Monte Carlo simulations and conclude that at the high-luminosity LHC, the proposed search can probe values of $λ'_{111}$ down to two orders of magnitude smaller than current bounds and up to 40 times stronger than projected limits from monolepton searches.
title Searching for light neutralinos with a displaced vertex at the LHC
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12818