English

Using Tau Polarization for Charged Higgs Boson and SUSY Searches at LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

The τ\tau polarization can be easily measured at LHC in the 1-prong hadronic τ\tau decay channel by measuring what fraction of the τ\tau-jet momentum is carried by the charged track. A simple cut requiring this fraction to be >0.8 retains most of the polarization of τ=\tau=+1 τ\tau-jet signal while suppressing the polarization of τ=\tau=-1 τ\tau-jet background and practically eliminating the fake τ\tau background. This can be utilized to extract the charged Higgs signal. It can be also utilized to extract the SUSY signal in the stau NLSP region, and in particular the stau co-annihilaton region.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0808.0438,
  title  = {Using Tau Polarization for Charged Higgs Boson and SUSY Searches at LHC},
  author = {Monoranjan Guchait and D. P. Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0438},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 9 figures; Fig.8 and Fig.9 are replaced, published in "Physics at the Large Hadron Collider", A Platinum Jubilee Special Issue of the Indian National Science Academy, Springer (2009) p 205