Is polarization effect visible in leptonic SUSY searches?
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 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 cut efficiencies in cross section measurements by when slepton contributions dominate in chargino decay or 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