TY - JOUR
T1 - A collective breaking of R-parity
AU - Ruderman, Joshua T.
AU - Slatyer, Tracy R.
AU - Weiner, Neal
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Supersymmetric theories with an R-parity generally yield a striking missing energy signature, with cascade decays concluding in a neutralino that escapes the detector. In theories where R-parity is broken the missing energy is replaced with additional jets or leptons, often making traditional search strategies ineffective. Such R-parity violation is very constrained, however, by resulting B and L violating signals. The R-parity violating couplings must be so small that there is tension for LSP decays to occur within the detector, unless couplings to different flavors are strongly hierarchical. In theories with additional matter fields, R-parity can be broken collectively, such that R-parity is not broken by any single coupling, but only by an ensemble of couplings. Cascade decays can proceed normally, with each step only sensitive to one or two couplings at a time, but B and L violation requires the full set, yielding a highly suppressed constraint. s-channel production of new scalar states, typically small for standard RPV, can be large when RPV is broken collectively. While missing energy is absent, making these models difficult to discover by traditional SUSY searches, they produce complicated many object resonances (MORes), with many different possible numbers of jets and leptons. We outline a simple model and discuss its discoverability at the LHC.
AB - Supersymmetric theories with an R-parity generally yield a striking missing energy signature, with cascade decays concluding in a neutralino that escapes the detector. In theories where R-parity is broken the missing energy is replaced with additional jets or leptons, often making traditional search strategies ineffective. Such R-parity violation is very constrained, however, by resulting B and L violating signals. The R-parity violating couplings must be so small that there is tension for LSP decays to occur within the detector, unless couplings to different flavors are strongly hierarchical. In theories with additional matter fields, R-parity can be broken collectively, such that R-parity is not broken by any single coupling, but only by an ensemble of couplings. Cascade decays can proceed normally, with each step only sensitive to one or two couplings at a time, but B and L violation requires the full set, yielding a highly suppressed constraint. s-channel production of new scalar states, typically small for standard RPV, can be large when RPV is broken collectively. While missing energy is absent, making these models difficult to discover by traditional SUSY searches, they produce complicated many object resonances (MORes), with many different possible numbers of jets and leptons. We outline a simple model and discuss its discoverability at the LHC.
KW - Supersymmetry Phenomenology
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)094
DO - 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)094
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84884560274
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2013
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 9
M1 - 94
ER -