Supersymmetry simulations with off-shell effects for LHC and ILC

Hagiwara, K.; Kilian, W.; Krauss, F.; Ohl, T.; Plehn, T.; Rainwater, D.; Reuter, J.; Schumann, S.

Abstract

At the LHC and at an ILC, serious studies of new physics benefit from a proper simulation of signals and backgrounds. Using supersymmetric sbottom pair production as an example, we show how multiparticle final states are necessary to properly describe off-shell effects induced by QCD, photon radiation, or by intermediate on-shell states. To ensure the correctness of our findings we compare in detail the implementation of the supersymmetric Lagrangian in madgraph, sherpa and whizard. As a future reference we give the numerical results for several hundred cross sections for the production of supersymmetric particles, checked with all three codes.

Citation

Hagiwara, K., Kilian, W., Krauss, F., Ohl, T., Plehn, T., Rainwater, D., …Schumann, S. (2006). Supersymmetry simulations with off-shell effects for LHC and ILC. Physical Review D, 73(5), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.73.055005

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2006-03
• Journal: Physical Review D
• Print ISSN: 1550-7998
• Electronic ISSN: 1550-2368
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.73.055005