Collider Phenomenology of a Gluino Continuum

TL;DR

This paper explores collider signatures of a continuum supersymmetry model with a conformal sector, using gauge-gravity duality to simulate and analyze gluino signals at the LHC, revealing weaker bounds than traditional models.

Contribution

It introduces a novel continuum supersymmetry framework and models collider signatures using gauge-gravity duality, providing new insights into superpartner detection.

Findings

Weaker LHC bounds on gluino mass compared to MSSM.

Continuum gluino signatures produce more jets, affecting detection strategies.

Modeling with gauge-gravity duality offers a new approach to collider phenomenology.

Abstract

Continuum supersymmetry is a class of models in which the supersymmetric partners together with part of the standard model come from a conformal sector, broken in the IR near the TeV scale. Such models not only open new doors for addressing the problems of the standard model, but also have unique signatures at hadron colliders, which might explain why we have not yet seen any superpartners at the LHC. Here we use gauge-gravity duality to model the conformal sector, generate collider simulations, and finally analyze continuum gluino signatures at the LHC. Due to the increase in the number of jets produced the bounds are weaker than for the minimal supersymmetric standard model with the same gluino mass threshold.