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Electroweak superpartners scrutinized at the LHC in events with multi-leptons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-01-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

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 μν\mu \nuSSM, where the presence of RR-parity violating (RPV) couplings involving right-handed neutrinos solves the μ\mu problem and can reproduce simultaneously the neutrino data. Left sneutrinos/sleptons are pair produced at pppp collisions decaying to Binos, with the latter decaying via RPV to WW\ell or ZνZ\nu. 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 110120110-120 GeV and sneutrino masses 120140120-140 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