The Quirky Collider Signals of Folded Supersymmetry [electronic resource].
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- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2008.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- 6 pages : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- We investigate the collider signals associated with scalar quirks ('squirks') in folded supersymmetric models. As opposed to regular superpartners in supersymmetric models these particles are uncolored, but are instead charged under a new confining group, leading to radically different collider signals. Due to the new strong dynamics, squirks that are pair produced do not hadronize separately, but rather form a highly excited bound state. The excited 'squirkonium' loses energy to radiation before annihilating back into Standard Model particles. We calculate the branching fractions into various channels for this process, which is prompt on collider time-scales. The most promising annihilation channel for discovery is W+photon which dominates for squirkonium near its ground state. We demonstrate the feasibility of the LHC search, showing that the mass peak is visible above the SM continuum background and estimate the discovery reach.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:slac-pub-13251
slac-pub-13251 - Subject(s)
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
08/01/2008.
"slac-pub-13251"
"arXiv:0805.4667"
Phys Rev D or JHEP FT
Chacko, Z.; Harnik, Roni; Burdman, Gustavo; Goh, Hock-Seng; Krenke, Christopher A. - Funding Information
- AC02-76SF00515
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