Boosting Searches for Natural SUSY with RPV via Gluino Cascades
arXiv:1211.4025 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.87.075003
Abstract
In the presence of even minuscule baryonic R-parity violation, the stop can be the lightest superpartner and evade LHC searches because it decays into two jets. In order to cover this interesting possibility, we here consider new searches for RPV stops produced in gluino cascades. While typical searches for gluinos decaying to stops rely on same-sign dileptons, the RPV cascades usually have fewer hard leptons, less excess missing energy, and more jets than R-parity conserving cascades. If the gluino is a Dirac fermion, same-sign dilepton signals are also often highly depleted. We therefore explore search strategies that use single-lepton channels, and combat backgrounds using HT, jet counting, and more detailed multijet kinematics or jet substructure. We demonstrate that the stop mass peaks can be fully reconstructed over a broad range of spectra, even given the very high jet multiplicities. This would not only serve as a "double-discovery" opportunity, but would also be a spectacular confirmation that the elusive top-partner has been hiding in multijets.
26 pages, 6 figures. V2: Constraints from Atlas search for b's are considered and discussed in detail in newly added subsection II E. Other parts of the paper and the conclusions are intact
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