Multiphoton signatures of goldstini at the LHC
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2014

We study models of gauge mediated SUSY breaking with more than one hidden sector. In these models the neutralino sector of the MSSM is supplemented with additional light neutral fermions, the nearly massless gravitino and the massive pseudo-goldstini. For the case where the Bino is the lightest ordinary SUSY particle, its preferred decay is to a photon and the heaviest pseudo-goldstino, which generically cascades down to lighter pseudo-goldstini, or to the gravitino, in association with photons. This gives rise to multiphoton plus missing energy signatures at the LHC. We investigate in detail simplified models where the SUSY spectrum consists of the right-handed sleptons, a Bino-like neutralino, the pseudo-goldstini and the gravitino. We compare against existing LHC searches and show that the sensitivity to our models could be significantly improved by relaxing the kinematic cuts and requiring additional final state particles. We propose inclusive searches in the final state with at least three photons plus missing energy and in the final state with at least two photons plus two leptons plus missing energy, the former being sensitive to any production mode and the latter being optimized for slepton pair production. We show that they could lead to an observation (or strong constraints) already with the data set from LHC Run I, and present prospects for LHC Run II.

partikelfysik

supersymmetri

LHC

Författare

Gabriele Ferretti

Chalmers, Fundamental fysik

A. Mariotti

Durham University

K. Mawatari

Vrije Universiteit Brüssel (VUB)

International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry

Christoffer Petersson

Chalmers, Fundamental fysik

Journal of High Energy Physics

1126-6708 (ISSN) 1029-8479 (eISSN)

Vol. April 2014 2014:126 126

Ämneskategorier

Subatomär fysik

Fundament

Grundläggande vetenskaper

DOI

10.1007/JHEP04(2014)126

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