Speaker
Krzysztof Piotrzkowski
(Universite Catholique de Louvain)
Description
At the LHC, the two-photon production of charged supersymmetric pairs has a
unique signature and, for masses below 200-250 GeV, significative cross-
sections. In comparison to the nominal supersymmetric studies at the LHC it
offers an interesting and very complementary potential. Using the adopted
CalcHEP program, interfaced to the Pythia generator, first analysis has been
performed of the two-photon chargino, slepton and charged higgs boson pairs
in MSSM. The signal selection and suppression of the principal backgrounds due
to W boson and lepton pair production have been studied at the generator
level, resulting in first sensitivity estimates. Finally, the technical issues of the
two-photon event selection in the harsh LHC environment are also discussed,
and prospects for further developments are given.
Author
Krzysztof Piotrzkowski
(Universite Catholique de Louvain)
Co-author
Nicolas Schul
(Universite Catholique de Louvain)
