Multilepton signals of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking at the LHC
Journal article, 2014

We investigate multilepton LHC signals arising from electroweak processes involving sleptons. We consider the framework of general gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking, focusing on models where the low mass region of the superpartner spectrum consists of the three generations of charged sleptons and the nearly massless gravitino. We demonstrate how such models can provide an explanation for the anomalous four lepton events recently observed by the CMS Collaboration, while satisfying other existing experimental constraints. The best fit to the CMS data is obtained for a selectron/smuon mass of around 145 GeV and a stau mass of around 90 GeV. These models also give rise to final states with more than four leptons, offering alternative channels in which they can be probed and we estimate the corresponding production rates at the LHC. (c) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license

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PHYSICS

RESUMMATION

MASS

BOSON

STANDARD MODEL

Supersymmetry breaking

HADRON COLLIDERS

SLEPTON-PAIR PRODUCTION

PARTICLE

Author

J. D'Hondt

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry

K. De Causmaecker

International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry

CERN

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

B. Fuks

CERN

University of Strasbourg

A. Mariotti

Durham University

K. Mawatari

International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Christoffer Petersson

Chalmers, Fundamental Physics

D. Redigolo

University of Strasbourg

Fundamental Fysik

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

0370-2693 (ISSN)

Vol. 731 7-12

Subject Categories

Physical Sciences

DOI

10.1016/j.physletb.2014.02.016

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