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SUSY Hidden in the Continuum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study models where the superpartners of the ordinary particles have continuous spectra rather than being discrete states, which can occur when the supersymmetric standard model is coupled to an approximately conformal sector. We show that when superpartners that are well into the continuum are produced at a collider they tend to have long decay chains that step their way down through the continuum, emitting many fairly soft standard model particles along the way, with a roughly spherical energy distribution in the center of mass frame.

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@article{arxiv.1108.3574,
  title  = {SUSY Hidden in the Continuum},
  author = {Haiying Cai and Hsin-Chia Cheng and Anibal D. Medina and John Terning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3574},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

26 pages, 9 figures. Update of Fig.5 and added aknowledgements

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