Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-10-12
Phys.Rev.D80:115016,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
8 pages, 9 figures; references and minor clarifications added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.115016
We investigate the prospects to extract supersymmetric couplings from a decay length measurement at the LHC. Specifically, we exploit the opportunity of a light and long-lived stop which is pair-produced through gluinos in association with like-sign top quarks. Any observed finite value of the stop decay length strongly supports models in which flavor is broken in a minimal way solely by the Standard Model Yukawa couplings. We find that a 1 picosecond stop lifetime, dominated by t~ -> c chi^0 decays, yields macroscopic transverse impact parameters of about 180 microns. If the lightest neutralino is predominantly higgsino or very close in mass to the light stop, the stop lifetime even increases and allows to observe stop tracks and possibly secondary vertices directly. Measuring squark flavor violation with the stop decay length works also with a gravitino LSP if the neutralino is the NLSP. For this case, opportunities from t~ -> c chi^0 -> c gamma G~ decays for very light gravitinos with mass <= keV are pointed out.
Hiller Gudrun
Kim Jong Soo
Sedello Henning
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