Probing Compressed Top Squarks at the LHC at 14 TeV
Abstract
A feasibility study is presented for the search of the lightest top squark in a compressed scenario, where its mass is approximately equal to the sum of the masses of the top quark and the lightest neutralino. The study is performed in the final state of two b-jets, one lepton, large missing energy, and two high- jets with large separation in pseudo-rapidity, in opposite hemispheres, and with large dijet mass. The LHC could discover compressed top squarks with mass up to approximately 340 GeV (390 GeV) with an integrated luminosity of 1000 ifb (3000 ifb).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.1348,
title = {Probing Compressed Top Squarks at the LHC at 14 TeV},
author = {Bhaskar Dutta and Will Flanagan and Alfredo Gurrola and Will Johns and Teruki Kamon and Paul Sheldon and Kuver Sinha and Kechen Wang and Sean Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1348},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Version updated with major changes: (a) 3-body stop decay (to b+W+n1) analyzed for first time (b) systematics calculation and discussion significantly upgraded (c) new kinematic and mass reach plots for the 3-body decay scenario added (d) discussions clarified throughout