Possible Effects of a Hidden Valley on Supersymmetric Phenomenology
By M. Strassler. 2006
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A hidden valley sector may havea profound impact on the classic phenomenology of supersymmetry. This occurs if the LSP lies in the valley sector. In addition to reducing the standard missing energy signals and possibly providing displaced vertices (phenomena familiar from gauge-mediated and R-parity-violating models) it may lead to a variable multiplicity of new neutral particles, whose decays produce soft jets and/or leptons, and perhaps additional displaced vertices. Combined, these issues might obscure supersymmetric particle production from search strategies used on current Tevatron data and planned for the LHC. The same concerns arise more generally for any model that has a symmetry (such as T-parity or KK-parity) realized nontrivially in both the standard-model and the hidden-valley sectors. Possible strategies for experimental detection are discussed, and the potential importance of the LHCb detector is noted.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (2019, background): “Given the complexity of the SM, such hidden sectors may very well have rich dynamics of their own, with numerous far-reaching implications for their phenomenology [67, 68, 70, 71, 540].”
- Probing dark forces and light hidden sectors at low-energy e+e- colliders (2009, methodology): “If the non-Abelian factor of GD is confined, then the physical picture is very similar to the hidden valley models discussed in [18, 19 , 20].”
- LHC Signals for a SuperUnified Theory of Dark Matter (2008, unknown): “[38] M. J. Strassler (2006), hep-ph/0607160.”
- Naturalness and the Status of Supersymmetry (2013, background): “Interesting possibilities in which cascade decays go through hidden sectors include hidden valley models [158, 159] and stealth supersymmetry [160].”