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Probing natural SUSY from stop pair production at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-05 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We consider the natural supersymmetry scenario in the framework of the R-parity conserving minimal supersymmetric standard model (called natural MSSM) and examine the observability of stop pair production at the LHC. We first scan the parameters of this scenario under various experimental constraints, including the SM-like Higgs boson mass, the indirect limits from precision electroweak data and B-decays. Then in the allowed parameter space we study the stop pair production at the LHC followed by the stop decay into a top quark plus a lightest neutralino or into a bottom quark plus a chargino. From detailed Monte Carlo simulations of the signals and backgrounds, we find the two decay modes are complementary to each other in probing the stop pair production, and the LHC with s=14\sqrt{s}= 14 TeV and 100 fb1fb^{-1} luminosity is capable of discovering the stop predicted in natural MSSM up to 450 GeV. If no excess events were observed at the LHC, the 95% C.L. exclusion limits of the stop masses can reach around 537 GeV.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1206.3865,
  title  = {Probing natural SUSY from stop pair production at the LHC},
  author = {Junjie Cao and Chengcheng Han and Lei Wu and Jin Min Yang and Yang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3865},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

19 pages, 10 figures, version accepted by JHEP