String photini at the LHC

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作者
Arvanitaki, Asimina [1 ,2 ]
Craig, Nathaniel [3 ]
Dimopoulos, Savas [3 ]
Dubovsky, Sergei [3 ,4 ]
March-Russell, John [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley Ctr Theoret Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Theoret Phys Grp, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[4] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[5] Univ Oxford, Rudolf Peierls Ctr Theoret Phys, Oxford, England
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 81卷 / 07期
关键词
MILLICHARGED PARTICLES; MEASURING MASSES; BOUNDS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.075018
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
String theories with topologically complex compactification manifolds suggest the simultaneous presence of many unbroken U(1)'s without any light matter charged under them. The gauge bosons associated with these U(1)'s do not have direct observational consequences. However, in the presence of low energy supersymmetry the gauge fermions associated with these U(1)'s, the "photini,'' mix with the bino and extend the minimal supersymmetric standard model neutralino sector. This leads to novel signatures at the LHC. The lightest ordinary supersymmetric particle (LOSP) can decay to any one of these photini. In turn, photini may transition into each other, leading to high lepton and jet multiplicities. Both the LOSP decays and interphotini transitions can lead to displaced vertices. When the interphotini decays happen outside the detector, the cascades can result in different photini escaping the detector, leading to multiple reconstructed masses for the invisible particle. If the LOSP is charged, it stops in the detector and decays out of time to photini, with the possibility that the produced final photini vary from event to event. Observation of a plenitude of photini at the LHC would be evidence that we live in a string vacuum with a topologically rich compactification manifold.
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