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Light stop decays into $W b \tilde{\chi}_1^0$ near the kinematic threshold

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate the decays of the light stop in scenarios with the lightest neutralino χ~10\tilde{\chi}_1^0 being the lightest supersymmetric particle, including flavour-violating (FV) effects. We analyse the region where the three-body decay t~1Wbχ~10\tilde{t}_1\to W b \tilde{\chi}_1^0 is kinematically allowed and provide a proper description of the transition region between the three-body decay and the four-body decay t~1χ~10bffˉ\tilde{t}_1 \to\tilde{\chi}_1^0 b f \bar{f}'. The improved treatment has been implemented in the Fortran package {\tt SUSY-HIT} and is used for the analysis of this region. A scan over the parameter range including all relevant experimental constraints reveals that the FV two-body decay into charm and χ~10\tilde{\chi}_1^0 can be as important as the three-, respectively, four-body decays if not dominant and therefore should be taken into account in order to complete the experimental searches for the light stop.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1502.05935,
  title  = {Light stop decays into $W b \tilde{\chi}_1^0$ near the kinematic threshold},
  author = {Ramona Grober and Margarete Muhlleitner and Eva Popenda and Alexander Wlotzka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05935},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures; matches journal version; appendix with analytic formula for three-body decay width added