Prospects for Electroweakino Discovery at a 100 TeV Hadron Collider

TL;DR

This paper assesses the potential for discovering electroweakinos in split Supersymmetry at a future 100 TeV collider, highlighting the mass reach, signatures, and challenges such as lepton collimation.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of electroweakino discovery prospects at 100 TeV, including mass reach estimates and the impact of collider signatures and experimental challenges.

Findings

3-lepton searches can reach up to 2-4 TeV in electroweakino masses.

A 100 TeV collider with 3000/fb can exclude Higgsino dark matter candidates around 1 TeV.

Lepton collimation is a key experimental challenge for heavy NLSPs above 2.5 TeV.

Abstract

We investigate the prospects of discovering split Supersymmetry at a future 100 TeV proton-proton collider through the direct production of electroweakino next-to-lightest-supersymmetric-particles (NLSPs). We focus on signatures with multi-lepton and missing energy: $3\ell$, opposite-sign dileptons and same-sign dileptons. We perform a comprehensive study of different electroweakino spectra. A 100 TeV collider with 3000/fb data is expected to exclude Higgsino thermal dark matter candidates with $m_{\rm{LSP}}\sim 1 $ TeV if Wino NLSPs are lighter than about 3.2 TeV. The $3\ell$ search usually offers the highest mass reach, which varies in the range of (2-4) TeV depending on scenarios. In particular, scenarios with light Higgsinos have generically simplified parameter dependences. We also demonstrate that, at a 100 TeV collider, lepton collimation becomes a crucial issue for NLSPs heavier than about 2.5 TeV. We finally compare our results with the discovery prospects of gluino pair productions and deduce which SUSY breaking model can be discovered first by electroweakino searches.