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Z-peaked excess in goldstini scenarios

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-10-07 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study a possible explanation of a 3.0 σ\sigma excess recently reported by the ATLAS Collaboration in events with Z-peaked same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair, jets and large missing transverse momentum in the context of gauge-mediated SUSY breaking with more than one hidden sector, the so-called goldstini scenario. In a certain parameter space, the gluino two-body decay chain g~gχ~1,20gZG~\tilde g\to g\tilde\chi^0_{1,2}\to gZ\tilde G' becomes dominant, where χ~1,20\tilde\chi^0_{1,2} and G~\tilde G' are the Higgsino-like neutralino and the massive pseudo-goldstino, respectively, and gluino pair production can contribute to the signal. We find that a mass spectrum such as mg~1000m_{\tilde g}\sim 1000 GeV, mχ~1,20800m_{\tilde\chi^0_{1,2}}\sim 800 GeV and mG~600m_{\tilde G'}\sim 600 GeV demonstrates the rate and the distributions of the excess, without conflicting with the stringent constraints from jets plus missing energy analyses and with the CMS constraint on the identical final state.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1506.08803,
  title  = {Z-peaked excess in goldstini scenarios},
  author = {Seng Pei Liew and Alberto Mariotti and Kentarou Mawatari and Kazuki Sakurai and Matthias Vereecken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08803},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 7 figures, 1 table; v2: the CMS binned on-Z analyses added, resulting in a small change in the best fit benchmark; v3: some issues clarified, fig.7 added, version to appear in PLB