Long-lived light neutralinos at Belle II

27 May 2021, 14:12
12m
Virtually, worldwide

Virtually, worldwide

Speaker

Zeren Simon Wang (National Tsing Hua University)

Description

We consider light neutralinos of mass about 1 GeV, produced from $\tau$ lepton rare decays at Belle II, in the context of R-parity-violating (RPV) supersymmetry. With large and clean samples of $\tau$ leptons produced at the Belle II experiment, excellent sensitivity to such light neutralinos with the exotic signatures of displaced vertices is expected. We focus on two benchmark scenarios of single RPV operators, $\lambda'_{311} L_3 Q_1 \bar{D}_1$ and $\lambda'_{312} L_3 Q_1 \bar{D}_2$, which induce both the production and decay of the lightest neutralino. For the reconstruction of a displaced vertex, we require at least two charged pions in the final states. We perform Monte-Carlo simulations for both signal and background events, and find that Belle II can explore regions in the parameter space competitive with other probes. In particular, for the $\lambda'_{311}$ scenario, it can put limits up to two orders of magnitude stronger than the current bounds.

Authors

Sourav Dey (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics) Claudio Dib (Federico Santa Maria Technical University (CL)) Dr juan carlos Helo (Universidad de La Serena) Minakshi Nayak (Tel Aviv University) Nicolas Neill (UTFSM) Abi Soffer (Tel Aviv University (IL)) Zeren Simon Wang (National Tsing Hua University)

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