Many Leptons at the LHC from the NMSSM

Abstract

We present a benchmark in the parameter space of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) that provides for a dramatic multi-lepton signal and no jets containing 5 or more leptons resulting from the cascade decays of the third lightest neutralino, ${\chi }_3^0$, and the lightest chargino, ${\chi }_1^{\pm }$, via light charged sleptons. This is a very clean signal with almost no Standard Model (SM) background. In some cases, a total signal of $\ge 3$leptons + 0 jets can be detected at the $5\sigma$ level at the LHC running at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with approximately 3 fb${}^{-1}$ of data and with less than 1 fb${}^{-1}$ when running at $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. In addition, kinematic edges in the invariant mass distributions of 2, 3, and 4 leptons are easily detectable with large integrated luminosities ($\sim 600$ fb${}^{-1}$) which can lead to simple measurements of the mass differences of heavy particles in the decay chains, including all combinations of the three lightest neutralinos.

23 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables

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