Signals of Supersymmetric Lepton Flavor Violation at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper explores how supersymmetric models predict lepton flavor violation signals at the LHC, focusing on 4-lepton events from slepton production, which could serve as clear indicators of new physics.

Contribution

It identifies specific conditions under which supersymmetric lepton flavor violation can produce detectable 4-lepton signatures at the LHC.

Findings

Potential for sizable 4-lepton events from slepton production

Conditions for clean supersymmetric lepton flavor violation signals

Implications for detecting new physics at the LHC

Abstract

In a generic supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model, there will be lepton flavor violation at a neutral gaugino vertex due to misalignment between the lepton Yukawa couplings and the slepton soft masses. Sleptons produced at the LHC through the cascade decays of squarks and gluinos can give a sizable number of events with 4 leptons. This channel could give a clean signature of supersymmetric lepton flavor violation under conditions which are identified.