Slepton Trapping at the Large Hadron and International Linear Colliders

Abstract

We consider supergravity with a gravitino lightest supersymmetric particle. The next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) decays to the gravitino with lifetime naturally in the range 10^4 - 10^8 s. However, cosmological constraints exclude lifetimes at the upper end of this range and disfavor neutralinos as NLSPs, leaving charged sleptons with lifetimes below a year as the natural NLSP candidates. Decays to gravitinos may therefore be observed by trapping slepton NLSPs in water tanks placed outside Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and International Linear Collider (ILC) detectors and draining these tanks periodically to underground reservoirs where slepton decays may be observed in quiet environments. We consider 0.1, 1, and 10 kton traps and optimize their shape and placement. We find that the LHC may trap tens to thousands of sleptons per year. At the ILC, these results may be improved by an order of magnitude in some cases by tuning the beam energy to produce slow sleptons. Precision studies of slepton decays are therefore possible and will provide direct observations of gravitational effects at colliders; percent level measurements of the gravitino mass and Newton's constant; precise determinations of the gravitino's contribution to dark matter and supersymmetry breaking's contribution to dark energy; quantitative tests of supergravity relations; and laboratory studies of Big Bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave background phenomena.

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