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Hunting for neutral, long-lived exotica at the LHC using a missing transverse energy signature | | Alexander Belyaev
; Stefano Moretti
; Kilian Nickel
; Marc C. Thomas
; Ian Tomalin
; | | Date: |
7 Dec 2015 | | Abstract: | Searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for neutral, long-lived particles
have historically relied on the detection of displaced particles produced by
their decay $ extit{within}$ the detector volume. In this paper we study the
potential of the complementary signature comprising of the missing transverse
energy ($E_T^{miss}$) signal, traditionally used to look for dark matter, e.g.,
the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), to extend the LHC coverage to
models with long-lived (LL) particles when they decay $ extit{outside}$ the
detector. Using CMS and ATLAS analyses at the 8 TeV LHC, we set an upper limit
at the 95% confidence level (CL) on the production cross sections for two
specific scenarios: (i) a model with a heavy non-standard model Higgs boson
decaying to a LL scalar and (ii) an R-parity violating RPV SUSY model with a LL
neutralino.
We show that this method can significantly extend the LHC sensitivity to
neutral, LL particles with arbitrary large lifetimes and that the limits
obtained from a $E_T^{miss}$ signal are comparable to those from displaced
particle searches for decay distances above a few meters. Results obtained in
this study do not not depend on the specific decay channel of the LL particle
and therefore are model-independent in this sense. We provide limits for the
whole two-dimensional plane in terms of the mass of the LL particle and the
mass of the mediator up to masses of 2 TeV including particular benchmarks
studied in the original experimental papers. We have made these limits
available in the form of a grid which can be used for the interpretation of
various other new physics models. | | Source: | arXiv, 1512.2229 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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