Hunting Squarks in Higgsino LSP scenarios at the LHC

Current searches for squarks are inefficient in cases when the squark does not directly decay to the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), because those decays are Yukawa suppressed. This occurs when producing the first two generations of squarks and when, at the same time, there are several elect...

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Autores: Arganda Carreras, Ernesto, Delgado, Antonio, Morales, Roberto Anibal, Quirós, Mariano
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/233321
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/233321
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Supersymmetry Phenomenolgoy
Dark Matter
Collider Physics
LHC
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
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Sumario:Current searches for squarks are inefficient in cases when the squark does not directly decay to the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), because those decays are Yukawa suppressed. This occurs when producing the first two generations of squarks and when, at the same time, there are several electroweakinos lighter than those squarks. In this paper, we analyze the signal of the pair production of squarks that subsequently decay to an intermediate neutralino (?χ03) plus jets. The neutralino will then decay to the LSP (mainly Higgsino) and a Higgs. We have simulated the events and designed a discovery strategy based on a signal of two jets, four b quarks, and missing transverse energy. We obtain very promising values for the Large Hadron Collider sensitivity at 14 TeV and 300  fb−1.