Journal Club

Seminar Room

Tuesday 5th of February, 2019

arXiv:1901.09937 [pdf, other]

Sleptons without Hadrons
Benjamin Fuks, Karl Nordström, Richard Ruiz, Sophie L. Williamson
Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

Multilepton searches for electroweakino and slepton pair production at hadron colliders remain some of the best means to test weak-scale supersymmetry. Searches at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, however, are limited by large diboson and top quark pair backgrounds, despite the application of traditional, central jet vetoes. In this context, we report the impact of introducing dynamic jet vetoes in searches for colorless superpartners. As a representative scenario, we consider the Drell-Yan production of a pair of right-handed smuons decaying into a dimuon system accompanied with missing transverse energy. As an exploratory step, we consider several global and local measures of the leptonic and hadronic activity to construct the veto. In almost all cases, we find that employing a dynamic jet veto improves the sensitivity, independently of the integrated luminosity. Directions for further improvements are discussed