Speaker
Dr
Frank Steffen
(Max Planck Institute for Physics Munich)
Description
We provide theoretical predictions for the direct production of supersymmetric scalar taus at the LHC, taking into account left-right mixing of the stau eigenstates. We find that b-quark annihilation and gluon fusion can enhance the cross sections by more than one order of magnitude with respect to the Drell-Yan contributions. For scenarios with long-lived staus, new possible strategies are outlined to determine the mass and width of the heavy CP-even Higgs boson $H^0$.
The presentation will be based in part on the following publication:
J.M.Lindert, F.D.Steffen, M.K.Trenkel, JHEP1108, 151 (2011) [arXiv:1106.4005]
<strong>Funding Source</strong>
Max Planck Society
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MPP Theory Group
| <strong>E-mail Address</strong> | steffen@mpp.mpg.de |
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Primary authors
Dr
Frank Steffen
(Max Planck Institute for Physics Munich)
Mr
Jonas Lindert
(Max Planck Institute for Physics Munich)
Dr
Maike Trenkel
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
