Exploring vector-like supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model with dark matter and colliders

TL;DR

This paper investigates an extended supersymmetric model with vector-like particles, analyzing dark matter candidates and collider signals, and demonstrating distinctive tau-rich events at the LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a specific vector-like extension of the MSSM, analyzing dark matter viability and collider signatures, including unique tau-enriched event predictions.

Findings

Neutralino dark matter behaves similarly to the minimal model.

Sneutrino dark matter is predominantly singlet-like.

Enhanced tau lepton production signals are predicted at colliders.

Abstract

Motivated by grand unification considerations, we analyze a simple extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model with additional pairs of vector-like chiral supermultiplets. We focus on the so-called LND setup, which enlarges the particle content of the minimal model by two vector-like pairs of weak doublets (one pair of leptons and one pair of down-type quarks) and one vector-like pair of neutrino singlets. Imposing collider and low-energy constraints, sneutrinos and neutralinos both emerge as possible lightest supersymmetric particles and thus dark matter candidates. We perform a complete analysis of the dark sector and study the viability of these neutralino and sneutrino dark matter options. We show that cosmological considerations (the dark matter relic abundance and its direct and indirect detection signals) restrict neutralino dark matter to exhibit similar properties as in the minimal supersymmetric standard model, and impose the sneutrino dark matter candidate to be singlet-like, rather than doublet-like. Allowing the mixing of the fermionic component of the new supermultiplets with the Standard Model third generation fermions, we moreover demonstrate the existence of collider signals that are distinguishable from other, more minimal, supersymmetric scenarios by virtue of an enhanced production of events enriched in tau leptons. We furthermore show that this signature yields robust LHC signals, that could potentially be differentiated from the background in future data.