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Long-lived light neutralinos at Belle II

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-03-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We consider light neutralinos of mass about 1 GeV, produced from τ\tau lepton rare decays at Belle II, in the context of R-parity-violating (RPV) supersymmetry. With large and clean samples of τ\tau leptons produced at the Belle II experiment, excellent sensitivity to such light neutralinos with the exotic signatures of displaced vertices is expected. We focus on two benchmark scenarios of single RPV operators, λ311L3Q1Dˉ1\lambda'_{311} L_3 Q_1 \bar{D}_1 and λ312L3Q1Dˉ2\lambda'_{312} L_3 Q_1 \bar{D}_2, which induce both the production and decay of the lightest neutralino. For the reconstruction of a displaced vertex, we require at least two charged pions in the final states. We perform Monte-Carlo simulations for both signal and background events, and find that Belle II can explore regions in the parameter space competitive with other probes. In particular, for the λ311\lambda'_{311} scenario, it can put limits up to two orders of magnitude stronger than the current bounds.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00438,
  title  = {Long-lived light neutralinos at Belle II},
  author = {Sourav Dey and Claudio O. Dib and Juan Carlos Helo and Minakshi Nayak and Nicolás A. Neill and Abner Soffer and Zeren Simon Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00438},
  year   = {2021}
}

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v1, 15 pages plus appendices, 6 figures, 3 tables; v2, minor changes, matched with the published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T20:38:13.262Z