The pair production of squarks is one of the main search channels for supersymmetry at the LHC. We present a fully differential calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) SUSY-QCD corrections to the on-shell production of a pair of squarks in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), supplemented by the leading-order decay of the squarks to the lightest neutralino and a quark. In addition, we use the Powheg method to match our NLO calculation with parton showers. To this end, the process was implemented in the Powheg-Box framework and interfaced with Pythia6 and Herwig++. We study the differential scale dependence and K-factors, and investigate the effects of the parton showers for a benchmark scenario in the constrained MSSM.
@article{arxiv.1305.4061,
title = {Matching Squark Pair Production at NLO with Parton Showers},
author = {Ryan Gavin and Christian Hangst and Michael Krämer and Margarete Mühlleitner and Mathieu Pellen and Eva Popenda and Michael Spira},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4061},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
42 pages, 21 figures, reference added, minor typos corrected, version accepted by JHEP