Studying the sensitivity of monotop probes to compressed supersymmetric scenarios at the LHC

Fuks, Benjamin; Richardson, Peter; Wilcock, Alexandra

Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity of the Large Hadron Collider to supersymmetric setups using monotop probes in which the signal is a single top quark produced in association with missing transverse energy. Our prospective study relies on Monte Carlo simulations of 300 fb−1300 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV and considers both leptonic and hadronic monotop decays. We present analysis strategies sensitive to regions of the supersymmetric parameter space which feature small superparticle mass splittings and illustrate their strengths in the context of a particular set of benchmark scenarios. Finally, we compare the regions of parameter space expected to be accessible with monotops probes during the next run of the LHC to the reach of more traditional search strategies employed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, where available.

Citation

Fuks, B., Richardson, P., & Wilcock, A. (2015). Studying the sensitivity of monotop probes to compressed supersymmetric scenarios at the LHC. The European Physical Journal C, 75(7), Article 308. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3530-6

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 17, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jul 4, 2015
• Publication Date: Jul 4, 2015
• Deposit Date: Nov 24, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 24, 2018
• Journal: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
• Print ISSN: 1434-6044
• Electronic ISSN: 1434-6052
• Publisher: SpringerOpen
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 75
• Issue: 7
• Article Number: 308
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3530-6
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1339462
• Related Public URLs: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1408.3634