Electroweak superpartners scrutinized at the LHC in events with multi-leptons
Abstract
We analyze a multi-lepton signal plus missing transverse energy from neutrinos expected at the LHC for a Bino-like neutralino as the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), when the left sneutrino is the next-to-LSP and hence a suitable source of Binos. The discussion is carried out in the framework of the SSM, where the presence of -parity violating (RPV) couplings involving right-handed neutrinos solves the problem and can reproduce simultaneously the neutrino data. Left sneutrinos/sleptons are pair produced at collisions decaying to Binos, with the latter decaying via RPV to or . This signal can be compared with LHC searches for electroweak superpartners through chargino-neutralino production. The reduced cross section of the sneutrino/slepton production in comparison with the one of the latter process, limits the sensitivity of the searches to small sneutrino/slepton masses. Although the resulting compressed spectrum typically evades the aforementioned searches, we show that analyses using recursive jigsaw reconstruction are sensitive to these scenarios. As a by-product, we find that the region of Bino masses GeV and sneutrino masses GeV can give rise to a tri-lepton signal compatible with the local excess recently reported by ATLAS.
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@article{arxiv.1810.12455,
title = {Electroweak superpartners scrutinized at the LHC in events with multi-leptons},
author = {Inaki Lara and Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani and Carlos Munoz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12455},
year = {2019}
}
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Discussions expanded, one figure and references added, version published in Phys. Lett. B. 18 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables