Testing Gluino Spin with Three-Body Decays

Details Testing Gluino Spin with Three-Body Decays Testing Gluino Spin with Three-Body Decays

2007-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/0707.0014v1

JHEP 0710:107,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

19 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/107

We examine the possibility of distinguishing a supersymmetric gluino from a Kaluza-Klein gluon of universal extra dimensions (UED) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We focus on the case when all kinematically allowed tree-level decays of this particle are 3-body decays into two jets and a massive daughter (typically weak gaugino or Kaluza-Klein weak gauge boson). We show that the shapes of the dijet invariant mass distributions differ significantly in the two models, as long as the mass of the decaying particle mA is substantially larger than the mass of the massive daughter mB. We present a simple analysis estimating the number of events needed to distinguish between the two models under idealized conditions. For example, for mA/mB=10, we find the required number of events to be of order several thousand, which should be available at the LHC within a few years. This conclusion is confirmed by a parton level Monte Carlo study which includes the effects of experimental cuts and the combinatoric background.

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