Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-08-23
JHEP 0409:070,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/070
We examine the experimental signatures for the production of gluinos at colliders and in cosmic rays within the split supersymmetry scenario. Unlike in the MSSM, the gluinos in this model are relatively long-lived due to the large value of the squark masses which mediate their decay. Searches at colliders are found to be sensitive to the nature of gluino fragmentation as well as the gluino-hadron interactions with nuclei and energy deposition as it traverses the detector. We find that the worst-case scenario, where a neutral gluino-hadron passes through the detector with little energy deposition, is well described by a monojet signature. For this case, using Run I data we obtain a bound of $m_{\tilde g} > 170$ GeV; this will increase to 210(1100) GeV at Run II(LHC) if no excess events are observed. In the opposite case, where a charged gluino-hadron travels through the detector, a significantly greater reach is obtained via stable charged particle search techniques. We also examine the production of gluino pairs in the atmosphere by cosmic rays and show they are potentially observable at IceCube; this would provide a cross-check for observations at hadron colliders.
Hewett JoAnne L.
Lillie Ben
Masip Manuel
Rizzo Thomas G.
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