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Request ID:
1202.0016
Analysis:
Search for Supersymmetry at the LHC in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy.
Status:
Active
Requester:
Natalia Toro
Recast Audience:
all
Model Name:
Direct Stop Production in SUSY
Selected Subscriber(s):
jingshao, mreece
Wed, 02/29/2012 - 19:51 - Activated
Request Description and Potential
Reason for request:
In supersymmetric models, the superpartners most closely tied to the weak scale by naturalness are the stop and sbottom, which cut-off the top and bottom's quadratically divergent contributions to the weak-scale. Various estimates by theorists suggest that this analysis has significant sensitivity to stops and sbottoms with ~200 GeV masses (see e.g. fig. 3 of arXiv:1110.6926), in parameter regions not yet explored by other searches. However, this is a challenging strategy to search for stops, because the selection efficiency is fairly low. A RECAST of this search in terms of the stop/higgsino or stop/sbottom/higgsino simplified models would be of considerable scientific interest, and would be helpful in understanding whether higher-luminosity updates of this search will enhance sensitivity to stops and sbottoms.
Additional Information:
LHE sample files will be provided upon request

Comments

Natalia Toro

Wed, 02/29/2012 - 19:53

See also request 1202.0008 (for the t-tbar+MET analysis), which concerns a different search but very similar topologies. Ideally the same LHE files can be used for both.