11–16 Dec 2008
Valencia, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

Prospects for detecting long-lived supersymmetric particles with ATLAS

12 Dec 2008, 15:40
20m
Valencia, Spain

Valencia, Spain

IFIC – Instituto de Física Corpuscular CSIC – Valencia Univ. Edificio Institutos de Investigación Apartado de Correos 22085 E-46071 Valencia SPAIN

Speaker

Emma Torro Pastor (IFIC CSIC - Universitat de Valencia)

Description

In certain supersymmetry breaking scenarios, characteristic signatures can be expected which would not necessarily be found in generic SUSY searches for events containing high-pT multi-jets and large missing transverse energy. In this talk, I will present the expected response of the ATLAS detector to signatures involving high-pT photons which may or may not appear to point back to the primary collision vertex and long-lived charged sleptons and R-hadrons. Such processes often have the advantage of small Standard Model backgrounds and their observation could provide unique constraints on the different SUSY breaking scenarios. Using these signatures discovery potentials are estimated for either Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking or Split-Supersymmetry scenarios. These studies have been performed using Monte Carlo samples of SUSY and background processes corresponding to integrated luminosity of about 1fb^(-1), corresponding to the first year of LHC running.

Author

Emma Torro Pastor (IFIC CSIC - Universitat de Valencia)

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