Measuring neutrino dynamics in NMSSM with a right-handed sneutrino LSP at the ILC

TL;DR

This paper explores how to measure neutrino Yukawa couplings in the NMSSM with right-handed neutrinos at the ILC, focusing on a light sneutrino dark matter candidate and its distinctive collider signature.

Contribution

It demonstrates the potential to extract neutrino Yukawa parameters from collider signals involving chargino decays in an extended SUSY model with a light sneutrino dark matter candidate.

Findings

Light sneutrino can be produced at ILC energies up to 500 GeV.

Collider signature is very clean, enabling Yukawa coupling measurement.

Results motivate searches for light dark matter at future colliders.

Abstract

We study the possibility of measuring neutrino Yukawa couplings in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with right-handed neutrinos (NMSSMr) when the lightest right-handed sneutrino is the Dark Matter (DM) candidate, by exploiting a `dijet + dilepton + Missing Transverse Energy' signature. We show that, contrary to the miminal realisation of Supersymmetry (SUSY), the MSSM, wherein the DM candidate is typically a much heavier (fermionic) neutralino state, this extended model of SUSY offers one with a much lighter (bosonic) state as DM that can then be produced at the next generation of $e^+e^-$ colliders with energies up to 500 GeV or so. The ensuing signal, energing from chargino pair production and subsequent decay, is extremely pure so it also affords one with the possibility of extracting the Yukawa parameters of the (s)neutrino sector. Altogether, our results serve the purpose of motivating searches for light DM signals at such machines, where the DM candidate can have a mass around the electroweak scale.