Limit on the mass of a long-lived or stable gluino

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2011)018MaRDI QIDQ407314zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Mackeprang, D. Milstead, J. P. Roberts, Glennys R. Farrar

Publication date 29 August 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2964

zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetry phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: We reinterpret the generic CDF charged massive particle limit to obtain a limit on the mass of a stable or long-lived gluino. Various sources of uncertainty are examined. The $R$-hadron spectrum and scattering cross sections are modeled based on known low-energy hadron physics and the resultant uncertainties are quantified and found to be small compared to uncertainties from the scale dependence of the NLO pQCD production cross sections. The largest uncertainty in the limit comes from the unknown squark mass: when the squark -- gluino mass splitting is small, we obtain a gluino mass limit of 407 GeV, while in the limit of heavy squarks the gluino mass limit is 397 GeV. For arbitrary (degenerate) squark masses, we obtain a lower limit of 322 GeV on the gluino mass. These limits apply for any gluino lifetime longer than $sim30$ ns, and are the most stringent limits for such a long-lived or stable gluino.

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• PYTHIA8
• GEANT4

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