TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Sensitivity to NMSSM Signatures with Low Missing Transverse Energy at the LHC
AU - Titterton, A.
AU - Ellwanger, U.
AU - Flaecher, H. U.
AU - Moretti, S.
AU - Shepherd-Themistocleous, C. H.
PY - 2018/10/9
Y1 - 2018/10/9
N2 - We examine scenarios in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), where pair-produced squarks and gluinos decay via two cascades, each ending in a stable neutralino as Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) and a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson, with mass spectra such that the missing transverse energy, $E_{T}^{\text{miss}}$, is very small. Performing two-dimensional parameter scans and focusing on the hadronic $H\rightarrow b\bar{b}$ decay giving a $b\bar{b}b\bar{b} + E_{T}^{\text{miss}}$ final state we explore the sensitivity of a current LHC general-purpose jets+$E_{T}^{\text{miss}}$ analysis to such scenarios.
AB - We examine scenarios in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), where pair-produced squarks and gluinos decay via two cascades, each ending in a stable neutralino as Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) and a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson, with mass spectra such that the missing transverse energy, $E_{T}^{\text{miss}}$, is very small. Performing two-dimensional parameter scans and focusing on the hadronic $H\rightarrow b\bar{b}$ decay giving a $b\bar{b}b\bar{b} + E_{T}^{\text{miss}}$ final state we explore the sensitivity of a current LHC general-purpose jets+$E_{T}^{\text{miss}}$ analysis to such scenarios.
KW - hep-ph
KW - Supersymmetry Phenomenology
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP10(2018)064
DO - 10.1007/JHEP10(2018)064
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
SN - 1029-8479
VL - 10
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
M1 - 64
ER -