TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lara, I.
AU  - Lopez-Fogliani, D. E.
AU  - Muñoz, C.
AU  - Nagata, N.
AU  - Otono, H.
AU  - Ruiz de Austri, R.
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Looking for the left sneutrino LSP with displaced-vertex searches
T2  - Phys. Rev. D
JO  - Physical Review D
SP  - 075004
EP  - 17pp
VL  - 98
IS  - 7
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - We analyze a displaced dilepton signal expected at the LHC for a tau left sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle with a mass in the range 45-100 GeV. The sneutrinos are pair produced via a virtual W, Z or gamma in the s channel and, given the large value of the tau Yukawa coupling, their decays into two dileptons or a dilepton plus missing transverse energy from neutrinos can be significant. The discussion is carried out in the framework of the μnu SSM, where the presence of R-parity violating couplings involving right-handed neutrinos solves the μproblem and can reproduce the neutrino data. To probe the tau left sneutrinos we compare the predictions of this scenario with the ATLAS search for long-lived particles using displaced lepton pairs in pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV, allowing us to constrain the parameter space of the model. We also consider an optimization of the trigger requirements used in existing displaced-vertex searches by means of a high level trigger that exploits tracker information. This optimization is generically useful for a light metastable particle decaying into soft charged leptons. The constraints on the sneutrino turn out to be more stringent. We finally discuss the prospects for the 13 TeV LHC searches as well as further potential optimizations.
SN  - 2470-0010
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00067
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.075004
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.075004
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000446298100007
ID  - Lara_etal2018
ER  -