Uncover Compressed Supersymmetry via Boosted Bosons from the Heavier Stop/Sbottom
Abstract
A light stop around the weak scale is a hopeful messenger of natural supersymmetry (SUSY), but it has not shown up at the current stage of LHC. Such a situation raises the question of the fate of natural SUSY. Actually, a relatively light stop can easily be hidden in a compressed spectra such as mild mass degeneracy between stop and neutralino plus top quark. Searching for such a stop at the LHC is a challenge. On the other hand, in terms of the argument of natural SUSY, other members in the stop sector, including a heavier stop and lighter sbottom (both assumed to be left-handed-like), are also supposed to be relatively light and therefore searching for them would provide an alternative method to probe natural SUSY with a compressed spectrum. In this paper we consider quasi-natural SUSY which tolerates relatively heavy colored partners near the TeV scale, with a moderately large mass gap between the heavier members and the lightest stop. Then as companions of and decaying into generically are well boosted, and they, along with other visible particles from decay, are a good probe to study compressed SUSY. We find that the resulting search strategy with boosted bosons can have better sensitivity than those utilizing multi-leptons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.08911,
title = {Uncover Compressed Supersymmetry via Boosted Bosons from the Heavier Stop/Sbottom},
author = {Zhaofeng Kang and Jinmian Li and Mengchao Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08911},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
19 pages, 6 figures, to appear in EPJC