Long-Lived Unstable Superparticles at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
In various models of supersymmetry (SUSY), the lightest superparticle in the minimal SUSY standard model sector, which we call MSSM-LSP, becomes unstable. Then, we may observe the decay of the MSSM-LSP in the detector at the LHC experiment. We show that the discovery of such a decay process (and the determination of the lifetime of the MSSM-LSP) may be possible at the LHC even if the decay length of the MSSM-LSP is much longer than the size of the detector; sizable number of the MSSM-LSPs decay inside the detector if the lifetime is shorter than 0.01-1 millisec. We also discuss the implications of the study of the MSSM-LSP decay for several well-motivated SUSY models.
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@article{arxiv.0807.0975,
title = {Long-Lived Unstable Superparticles at the LHC},
author = {Koji Ishiwata and Takumi Ito and Takeo Moroi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0975},
year = {2008}
}
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13 pages, 4 figures