Impact of squark generation mixing on the search for gluinos at LHC

Author(s)
Alfred Bartl, Keisho Hidaka, Karl Hohenwarter-Sodek, Thomas Kernreiter, Walter Majerotto, Werner Porod
Abstract

We study gluino decays in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with squark generation mixing. We show that the effect of this mixing on the gluino decay branching ratios can be very large in a significant part of the MSSM parameter space despite the very strong experimental constraints on quark flavour violation (QFV) from B meson observables. Especially we find that under favourable conditions the branching ratio of the QFV gluino decay View the MathML source can be as large as not, vert, similar50%. We also find that the squark generation mixing can result in a multiple-edge (3- or 4-edge) structure in the charm-top quark invariant mass distribution. The appearance of this remarkable structure provides an additional powerful test of supersymmetric QFV at LHC. These could have an important impact on the search for gluinos and the determination of the MSSM parameters at LHC.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
Tokyo Gakugei University (TGU), Instituto Superior Técnico, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Journal
Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume
679
Pages
260-266
No. of pages
7
ISSN
0370-2693
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.07.050
Publication date
2009
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
1030 Physics, Astronomy
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d5f7141a-1f6b-4575-be5b-d4348edb5442