The Quirky Collider Signals of Folded Supersymmetry

Details The Quirky Collider Signals of Folded Supersymmetry The Quirky Collider Signals of Folded Supersymmetry

2008-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/0805.4667v1

Phys.Rev.D78:075028,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.075028

We investigate the collider signals associated with scalar quirks ("squirks") in folded supersymmetric models. As opposed to regular superpartners in supersymmetric models these particles are uncolored, but are instead charged under a new confining group, leading to radically different collider signals. Due to the new strong dynamics, squirks that are pair produced do not hadronize separately, but rather form a highly excited bound state. The excited ``squirkonium'' loses energy to radiation before annihilating back into Standard Model particles. We calculate the branching fractions into various channels for this process, which is prompt on collider time-scales. The most promising annihilation channel for discovery is W+photon which dominates for squirkonium near its ground state. We demonstrate the feasibility of the LHC search, showing that the mass peak is visible above the SM continuum background and estimate the discovery reach.

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