Spin Measurements in Cascade Decays at the LHC

Abstract

We systematically study the possibility of determining the spin of new particles after their discovery at the LHC. We concentrate on angular correlations in cascade decays. Motivated by constraints of electroweak precision tests and the potential of providing a Cold Dark Matter candidate, we focus on scenarios of new physics in which some discrete symmetry guarantees the existence of stable neutral particles which escape the detector. More specifically, we compare supersymmetry with another generic scenario in which new physics particles have the same spin as their Standard Model partners. A survey of possibilities of observing spin correlations in a broad range of decay channels is carried out, with interesting ones identified. Rather than confining ourselves to one "collider friendly" benchmark point (such as SPS1a), we describe the parameter region in which any particular decay channel is effective. We conduct a more detailed study of chargino's spin determination in the decay channel $\tilde{q}\to q+{\tilde{C}}^{\pm }\to q+W^{\pm }+LSP$. A scan over the chargino and neutralino masses is performed. We find that as long as the spectrum is not too degenerate the prospects for spin determination in this channel are rather good.

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