New angular (and other) cuts to improve the higgsino signal at the LHC
arXiv:2109.14030 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.095017
Abstract
Motivated by the fact that naturalness arguments strongly suggest that the SUSY-preserving higgsino mass parameter mu cannot be too far above the weak scale, we re-examine higgsino pair production in association with a hard QCD jet at the HL-LHC. We focus on \ell^+\ell^-+\eslt+j events from the production and subsequent decay, \tchi_2^0\to\tchi_1^0\ell^+\ell^-, of the heavier neutral higgsino. The novel feature of our analysis is that we suggest angular cuts to reduce the important background from Z(\to ττ)+j events more efficiently than the m_{ττ}^2<0 cut that has been used by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Other cuts, needed to reduce backgrounds from t\bar{t}, WWj and W/Z+\ell\bar{\ell} production, are also delineated. We plot out the reach of LHC14 for 300 and 3000~fb^{-1} and also show distributions that serve to characterize the higgsino signal, noting that higgsinos may well be the only superpartners accessible at LHC14 in a well-motivated class of natural SUSY models.
33 pages including 26 .png figures; version 2 has minor typo changes to coincide with published version
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