Impact of squark generation mixing on the search for squarks decaying into fermions at LHC

Author(s)
Alfred Bartl, Helmut Eberl, Björn Herrmann, Keisho Hidaka, Walter Majerotto, Werner Porod
Abstract

We study the effect of squark generation mixing on squark production and decays at LHC in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We show that the effect can be very large despite the very strong constraints on quark-flavour violation (QFV) from experimental data on B mesons. We find that the two lightest up-type squarks (u) over bar (1.2) can have large branching ratios for the decays into c (chi) over bar (0)(1) and t (chi) over bar (0)(1) at the same time due to squark generation mixing, leading to QFV signals 'pp -> c (t) over bar (t (c) over bar) + missing-E(T) + X' with a significant rate. The observation of this remarkable signature would provide a powerful test of supersymmetric QFV at LHC. This could have a significant impact on the search for squarks and the determination of the underlying MSSM parameters.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Tokyo Gakugei University (TGU), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Journal
Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume
698
Pages
380-388
No. of pages
9
ISSN
0370-2693
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.01.020
Publication date
2011
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103012 High energy physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/impact-of-squark-generation-mixing-on-the-search-for-squarks-decaying-into-fermions-at-lhc(703b1eb0-185a-429c-9294-b6fff72169b8).html