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Exploring Sensitivity to NMSSM Signatures with Low Missing Transverse Energy at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-11-14 v2

Abstract

We examine scenarios in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), where pair-produced squarks and gluinos decay via two cascades, each ending in a stable neutralino as Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) and a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson, with mass spectra such that the missing transverse energy, ETmissE_{T}^{\text{miss}}, is very small. Performing two-dimensional parameter scans and focusing on the hadronic HbbˉH\rightarrow b\bar{b} decay giving a bbˉbbˉ+ETmissb\bar{b}b\bar{b} + E_{T}^{\text{miss}} final state we explore the sensitivity of a current LHC general-purpose jets+ETmissE_{T}^{\text{miss}} analysis to such scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.1807.10672,
  title  = {Exploring Sensitivity to NMSSM Signatures with Low Missing Transverse Energy at the LHC},
  author = {A. Titterton and U. Ellwanger and H. U. Flaecher and S. Moretti and C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10672},
  year   = {2018}
}

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17 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables