Reconstruction of the left-chiral tau-sneutrino in supersymmetry with a right-sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle

TL;DR

This paper explores reconstructing the left-chiral tau-sneutrino in a supersymmetric model with a right-sneutrino LSP, using collider signals of stable charged particles to identify and analyze the sneutrino.

Contribution

It introduces methods for reconstructing the left-chiral tau-sneutrino in a supersymmetric scenario with a right-sneutrino LSP, expanding previous neutralino and chargino studies.

Findings

Charged tracks of stable particles can be used for sneutrino reconstruction.

Two methods for reconstruction are proposed and their advantages discussed.

Reconstruction is feasible over a significant parameter space.

Abstract

We have considered a supersymmetric scenario in which the minimal supersymmetric standard model is augmented with a right-chiral neutrino superfield for each generation. Such a scenario can have a lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) dominated by the right-chiral sneutrino state and the lighter stau as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP). This can easily be motivated by assuming a high scale framework of supersymmetry breaking like minimal supergravity (mSUGRA). Due to the extremely small neutrino Yukawa coupling, the decay of the NLSP to the LSP is suppressed and consequently the NLSP, here the lighter stau mass eigenstate, becomes stable at the length scale of the detector. The collider signal in this case consists of charged tracks of massive stable particles in the muon chamber. Following up on our earlier studies on neutralino and chargino reconstruction in such a scenario, we have shown the kinematical information obtained from these charged tracks allows us to reconstruct the left-chiral tau-sneutrino as well over a significant region of the mSUGRA parameter space. Two methods for reconstruction are suggested and their relative merits are discussed.