LHC phenomenology with hidden sector dark matter: a long-lived stau and heavy Higgs in an observable range

Abstract

The presence of a hidden sector with very weak interactions with the standard model has significant implications on LHC signatures. In this work we discuss LHC phenomenology with the inclusion of a hidden sector by a $U(1)$ extension of MSSM/SUGRA. We consider both kinetic mixing and Stueckelberg mass mixing between the $U(1)$ gauge field of the hidden sector and $U(1{)}_Y$ of the visible sector. Such a model has an extended parameter space. We consider here two limited regions of this parameter space. In the first case we consider a $U(1)$ gauge field along with chiral fields needed for the Stueckelberg mechanism to operate and discuss the mixing between the hidden and the visible sectors. Here if the stau is the lightest sparticle in the MSSM sector and the neutralino of the hidden sector is the LSP of the full system and a dark matter candidate, the stau can be long-lived and decay inside an LHC detector tracker. In the second case we include extra vectorlike matter in the hidden sector which can give rise to a Dirac fermion in addition to the two neutralinos in the hidden sector. The neutralino sector now has six neutralinos and we assume that the lightest of these is the LSP and is higgsino-like. In this case the dark matter is constituted of a Majorana and a Dirac fermion, and a small $\mu$ leads to heavy Higgs boson masses which reside in the observable range of HL-LHC and HE-LHC.

Talks presented at the 2019 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society (DPF2019), July 29 - August 2, 2019, Northeastern University, Boston, C1907293

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