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Is polarization effect visible in leptonic SUSY searches?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-12-23 v1

Abstract

On-shell effective theory approach has been widely used in search of various supersymmetric signals, in particular, gluino/squark pairs with long cascade decay chains in which complete matrix element calculations may encounter over-20 dimensional integrations. On the other hand, leptons from polarized chargino decays may show significant boost or anti-boost effect in some scenarios and simulation without polarization information may underestimate or overestimate the lepton pTp_{T} cut efficiencies in the first place. We study the polarization effects in supersymmetry searches of multi-jets plus leptons final states. We find it justifiable for first two generations to only use on-shell effective theories. While for measurements related to third generation squarks, for instance, polarization effect of charginos from stop may reduce the lepton pTp_{T} cut efficiencies in cross section measurements by 25%25\% when slepton contributions dominate in chargino decay or WW are on-shell. The signal is then underestimated if only on-shell effective theory approach is taken in simulation of signal and the real bound on squark/gluino should be more stringent.

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@article{arxiv.1312.1527,
  title  = {Is polarization effect visible in leptonic SUSY searches?},
  author = {Kai Wang and Liucheng Wang and Tao Xu and Liangliang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1527},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures