Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-12-19
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
14 pages, 16 figures
Scientific paper
If produced at the LHC, long-lived charged particles (LLCPs) would leave tracks in the muon detector. Time-of-Flight based methods for detecting these particles become less efficient if the LLCPs are fast, which would typically be the case if they are produced in the decays of some mother particle which is either heavy or very boosted. Thus for example, in supersymmetric models with long-lived sleptons, the long-lived sleptons produced in neutralino decays are often fast, with beta above 0.95 even at a 7 TeV LHC. We propose to use the (mis-measured) invariant mass distribution of "muon"-lepton pairs, where the "muon" could be a slepton LLCP, to detect it. This distribution peaks somewhat below the neutralino mass. The peak can be further enhanced by evaluating the distribution for different values of candidate "muon" masses. We simulate two GMSB-like models to show that this procedure can be used to detect the long-lived sleptons and measure both their mass and the neutralino mass.
Galon Iftah
Shadmi Yael
Tarboush Shahrazad
Tarem Shlomit
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