LHC coverage of RPV MSSM with light stops

Jared A. Evans, Yevgeny Kats

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Abstract

We examine the sensitivity of recent LHC searches to signatures of supersymmetry with R-parity violation (RPV). Motivated by naturalness of the Higgs potential, which would favor light third-generation squarks, and the stringent LHC bounds on spectra in which the gluino or first and second generation squarks are light, we focus on scenarios dominated by the pair production of light stops. We consider the various possible direct and cascade decays of the stop that involve the trilinear RPV operators. We find that in many cases, the existing searches exclude stops in the natural mass range and beyond. However, typically there is little or no sensitivity to cases dominated by UDD operators or LQD operators involving taus. We propose several ideas for searches which could address the existing gaps in experimental coverage of these signals.

Original languageEnglish
Article number28
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2013
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Hadronic Colliders
  • Supersymmetry Phenomenology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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