Improving the sensitivity of stop searches with on-shell constrained invariant mass variables

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Improving the sensitivity of stop searches with on-shell constrained invariant mass variables
المؤلفون: Cho, Won Sang, Gainer, James S., Kim, Doojin, Matchev, Konstantin T., Moortgat, Filip, Pape, Luc, Park, Myeonghun
المصدر: JHEP 1505 (2015) 040
سنة النشر: 2014
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment
الوصف: The search for light stops is of paramount importance, both in general as a promising path to the discovery of beyond the standard model physics and more specifically as a way of evaluating the success of the naturalness paradigm. While the LHC experiments have ruled out much of the relevant parameter space, there are "stop gaps", i.e., values of sparticle masses for which existing LHC analyses have relatively little sensitivity to light stops. We point out that techniques involving on-shell constrained M_2 variables can do much to enhance sensitivity in this region and hence help close the stop gaps. We demonstrate the use of these variables for several benchmark points and describe the effect of realistic complications, such as detector effects and combinatorial backgrounds, in order to provide a useful toolkit for light stop searches in particular, and new physics searches at the LHC in general.
Comment: 49 pages, 28 figures, revised version published in JHEP, references added
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2015)040
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0664
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1411.0664
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv