Conciliating SUSY with the Z-peaked excess
arXiv:1512.06166 · doi:10.1051/epjconf/201612602021
Abstract
The ATLAS experiment observed an excess at the level in the channel of boson, jets and high missing transverse momentum in the full 2012 dataset at 8 TeV while searching for SUSY. The question arises whether the abundance and the kinematical features of this excess are compatible with the yet unconstrained supersymmetric realm, respecting at the same time the measured Higgs boson properties and dark matter density. By trying to explain this signal with SUSY we find that only relatively light gluinos together with a heavy neutralino NLSP decaying predominantly to a boson plus a light gravitino could reproduce the excess. We construct an explicit general gauge mediation model able to match the observed signal. More sophisticated models could also reproduce the signal, as long as it features light gluinos, or heavy particles with a strong production cross section, producing at least one boson in its decay chain. The implications of our findings for the Run II at LHC with the scaling on the peak, as well as for the direct search of gluinos and other SUSY particles, are also discussed.
12 pages, 10 figures; Invited plenary talk in 4th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2015), 23-30 Aug 2015, Kolymbari, Greece; based on arXiv:1503.04184
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