Squark Flavor Violation at the LHC

Details Squark Flavor Violation at the LHC Squark Flavor Violation at the LHC

2009-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/0901.4105v1

JHEP 0906:042,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

9 figures and 4 tables

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/042

We consider the prospects for measuring squark flavor violation through the signal of single top production at the LHC. We study this signal in the context of R-symmetric supersymmetry, which allows for large flavor violation in the squark sector, however the results can also be generalized to the MSSM. The single top signal arises from squark pair production in which one squark decays to a top and gaugino, whereas the other squark decays to a non-top quark and gaugino. We study three decay patterns: (I) squark decay into a quark and neutralino LSP; (II) squark decay into a quark and neutralino NLSP, with subsequent decay of the NLSP to a photon and gravitino; (III) squark decay into a quark and chargino NLSP, with subsequent decay of the NLSP to a H^\pm/W^\pm and gravitino. Case II is the most promising, when the NLSP decay is prompt, since every event contains two hard photons that can be used to tag the events, reducing the background to a negligible level. Case I is promising if the neutralino LSP is bino-like. We carefully consider large SM backgrounds and identify a series of cuts to isolate the signal. Case III can occur in the MRSSM with Higgsino-like lightest gauginos. Due to the large Higgs coupling, squarks preferentially decay to top quarks, substantially reducing the potential flavor violating signal. Nevertheless, the flavor violating signal might still be identifiable if the chargino NLSP is long-lived.

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