Resonant slepton production and right sneutrino dark matter in left-right supersymmetry
Feb 7, 2017
18 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 05 (2017) 015
- Published: May 3, 2017
e-Print:
- 1702.02112 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- CUMQ-HEP-191,
- HIP-2017-01-TH,
- HRI-RECAPP-2017-001
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Abstract: (Springer)
Right-handed sneutrinos are natural components of left-right symmetric supersymmetric models where the gauge sector is extended to include right-handed weak interactions. Unlike in other models where right-handed sneutrinos are gauge singlets, here the right sneutrino is part of a doublet and could be a dark matter candidate whose annihilation proceeds via gauge interactions. We investigate this possibility, and find that relic density, low-energy observable and direct supersymmetry search constraints can be satisfied when the lightest supersymmetric particle is a right-handed sneutrino. We introduce benchmarks for left-right supersymmetric realizations where either a sneutrino or a neutralino is the lightest superpartner. We then study the LHC signals arising through resonant right-handed slepton production via a W gauge-boson exchange that lead to final states enriched in leptons, additionally containing a large amount of missing transverse momentum, and featuring a low jet multiplicity. We find that such a resonant production would boost the chances of discovering these weakly interacting supersymmetric particles for a mass range extending beyond 1 TeV already with a luminosity of 100 fb. Finally, we compare sneutrino versus neutralino scenarios, and comment on differences with other sneutrino dark matter models.Note:
- 29 pages, 5 figures, revised version
- Supersymmetry Phenomenology
- new physics
- supersymmetry
- model: left-right
- symmetry: left-right
- sneutrino: right-handed
- sneutrino: dark matter
- sneutrino: LSP
- neutralino: LSP
- LSP: dark matter
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