Stop-Neutralino Coannihilation in the Light of LHC

TL;DR

This paper uses LHC ATLAS data to constrain a supersymmetric model with stop-neutralino coannihilation, excluding certain mass ranges and providing insights into dark matter detection cross sections.

Contribution

It presents the first LHC constraints on the CMSSM with b- au Yukawa unification involving stop-neutralino coannihilation, especially in the light stop mass region.

Findings

Stop NLSP mass below 140 GeV is excluded.

LHC constraints surpass some direct detection bounds for certain neutralino masses.

Large m_0 parameter space is significantly constrained.

Abstract

We employ the ATLAS search results for events containing jets and large missing transverse momentum, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb^{-1}, to investigate the constrained minimal supersymmetric model (CMSSM) with b-\tau Yukawa coupling unification. In this scenario, one of the stops is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP), which co-annihilates with the lightest (LSP) neutralino to yield the desired dark matter relic abundance. The NLSP stop, here taken to be lighter than the top quark, is slightly (<~ 20%-30%) heavier than the LSP neutralino, and it primarily decays into the LSP and a charm quark. We find that the multi-jets and monojet ATLAS searches are sensitive to this scenario if the stop pair production is accompanied by a hard QCD jet. The excluded limit for the NLSP stop mass from the ATLAS data can reach 160 GeV in the coannihilation region, with mass below 140 GeV essentially excluded. A significant region of the parameter space corresponding to large m_0 values, 8 TeV<~ m_0<~ 16 TeV, is excluded by our analysis. For LSP neutralino mass ~ 100 GeV, the LHC constraints in some cases on the spin-dependent (spin-independent) neutralino-nucleon cross section are significantly more stringent than the current and expected bounds from Xenon, CDMS and IceCube.