Increasing the Discovery Potential Using Rare SUSY Scenarios Part I: Gluinos

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the high-luminosity LHC's potential to discover gluinos in specific SUSY scenarios, proposing a novel search method that exploits kinematic features to improve detection sensitivity.

Contribution

It introduces a new search strategy for gluinos in the gluino-weakino channel using kinematic edge features, enhancing discovery prospects at the HL-LHC.

Findings

5 sigma discovery potential for gluino masses 2.4 to 3 TeV

Effective for squark masses around 2 TeV

Comparable to gluino pair production channel projections

Abstract

In this work we consider the HL-LHC discovery potential in the 3 inverse ab data set for gluinos in the gluino-weakino associated production channel. We propose a search in the jets plus missing energy channel which exploits kinematic edge features in the reconstructed transverse mass of the gluino. We find that for squark masses in the 2 TeV range we have 5 sigma discovery potential for gluino masses in the range of 2.4 to 3 TeV, competitive with the projections for discovery potential in the gluino pair production channel.