# Physics at LHC 2012

4-9 June 2012
Life Sciences Centre, UBC
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## Direct stau production at the LHC

Not scheduled
20m
Life Sciences Centre, UBC

#### Life Sciences Centre, UBC

University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada
Poster

### 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

MPP Theory Group