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arxiv: 1309.6631 · v1 · pith:GFXCBAGRnew · submitted 2013-09-25 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex

Pulling Out All the Stops: Searching for RPV SUSY with Stop-Jets

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keywords decaysextendflavorfour-jetsensitivitystopstopssubstructure
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If the lighter stop eigenstate decays directly to two jets via baryonic R-parity violation, it could have escaped existing LHC and Tevatron searches in four-jet events, even for masses as small as 100 GeV. In order to recover sensitivity in the face of increasingly harsh trigger requirements at the LHC, we propose a search for stop pairs in the highly-boosted regime, using the approaches of jet substructure. We demonstrate that the four-jet triggers can be completely bypassed by using inclusive jet-H_T triggers, and that the resulting QCD continuum background can be processed by substructure methods into a featureless spectrum suitable for a data-driven bump-hunt down to 100 GeV. We estimate that the LHC 8 TeV run is sensitive to 100 GeV stops with decays of any flavor at better than 5-sigma level, and could place exclusions up to 300 GeV or higher. Assuming Minimal Flavor Violation and running a b-tagged analysis, exclusion reach may extend up to nearly 400 GeV. Longer-term, the 14 TeV LHC at 300/fb could extend these mass limits by a factor of two, while continuing to improve sensitivity in the 100 GeV region.

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