Searching for the light Higgsinos in MSSM at the future e-p colliders

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential of future electron-proton colliders, LHeC and FCC-eh, to detect light Higgsinos in the MSSM, which are difficult to find at the LHC due to their compressed spectra and low production rates.

Contribution

It proposes using future e-p colliders to search for light Higgsinos via weak boson fusion, offering a promising alternative to current LHC methods.

Findings

Higgsinos of 95/145 GeV can be detected at 2σ at LHeC/FCC-eh.

Future e-p colliders provide a cleaner environment for Higgsino searches.

Detection is feasible with 3 ab^{-1} luminosity.

Abstract

The search of the light Higgsino {in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM)} is a crucial test for the criteria of the naturalness in supersymmetry. On the other hand, the direct production of light Higgsino is also known as one of the most challenging SUSY searches at the current CERN Large Hadron collider (LHC). The lack of visible leptons due to the compressed spectrum and their small production rates limits their discovery potential in both mono-jet plus MET as well as the weak boson fusion (WBF) production. The signal $S/B$ ratio prediction is usually within the background systematic uncertainties at the LHC. Without color exchange between the beams, the $e-p$ colliders are well-known to have the WBF feature. Therefore, we study the search of the light Higgsinos at two future $e-p$ colliders at CERN, LHeC and FCC-eh.~The light Higgsinos will be produced in pair through weak boson fusion with controlled background at these colliders. We find the Higgsino of 95/145~GeV can be reached at 2$\sigma$ level at the future LHeC/FCC-eh with a luminosity $3 ~\text{ab}^{-1}$ respectively.