QCD correction to gluino decay to $t\bar{t}\tilde{\chi}^0_1$ in the MSSM

TL;DR

This paper computes the complete next-to-leading order QCD corrections to gluino decay into top pairs and a neutralino in the MSSM, showing significant suppression of decay width and implications for collider measurements.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed NLO QCD correction calculation for the three-body decay of gluino into top pairs and a neutralino in the MSSM, including parameter dependence analysis.

Findings

NLO QCD corrections reduce decay width by about 28%.

Relative correction can exceed 30% in some parameter regions.

Distributions of top-pair mass and missing energy are not significantly distorted.

Abstract

We calculate the complete next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the three-body decay of gluino into top-pair associated with a lightest neutralino in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We obtain that the LO and NLO QCD corrected decay widths of $\tilde{g} \to t \bar{t} \tilde{\chi}_1^0$ at the ${\rm SPS 6}$ benchmark point are $0.1490 GeV$ and 0.1069 GeV respectively, and the relative correction is -28.2%. We investigate the dependence of the QCD correction to $\tilde{g} \to t \bar{t} \tilde{\chi}_1^0$ on $\tan\beta$ and the masses of gluino, scalar top quarks and the lightest neutralino around the ${\rm SPS6}$ benchmark point, separately. We find that the NLO QCD corrections suppress the LO decay width, and the absolute relative correction can exceed 30% in some parameter space. Therefore, the QCD corrections to the three-body decay $\tilde{g} \to t\bar{t}\tilde{\chi}^0_1$ should be taken into account for the precise experimental measurement at future colliders. Moreover, we study the distributions of the top-pair invariant mass ($M_{t\bar t}$) and the missing energy ($E^{miss}$), and find that the line shapes of the LO distributions of $M_{t\bar t}$ and $E^{miss}$ are not obviously distorted by the NLO QCD corrections.