Large Jet Multiplicities and Natural Supersymmetry at the LHC

Abstract

We consider a search strategy for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider which focuses on the signature of many jets and missing transverse energy, but no charged leptons. We show that this signature can be useful in probing a wide class of models, including natural supersymmetry, in which dark matter is produced in conjunction top quarks. As an example, we apply this strategy to a simplified supersymmetric model with a light gluino, light stop and light neutralino. The efficacy of this strategy is comparable to (and in some cases better than) that of other strategies which require charged leptons and/or b-tagged jets.

arXiv comment6 pages, 2 figures, PDFLaTeX, proceedings of the 36th International Conference of High Energy Physics - ICHEP2012, July 4-11, 2012, Melbourne, Australia. References added

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