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6–8 May 2019
University of Pittsburgh
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Signatures of supersymmetry and LμLτ gauge boson at Belle-II

7 May 2019, 15:15
15m
209 (Lawrence Hall)

209

Lawrence Hall

parallel talk SUSY II

Speaker

Sourov Roy (IACS, Kolkata)

Description

We propose that the γ+ signal at the Belle-II detector will be a smoking gun for supersymmetry (SUSY) in the presence of a gauged U(1)LμLτ symmetry. A striking consequence of breaking the enhanced symmetry appearing in the limit of degenerate (s)leptons is the non-decoupling of the
radiative contribution of heavy charged sleptons to the γZ kinetic mixing. The signal process, e+eγZγ+, is an outcome of this ubiquitous feature. We take into account the severe constraints on gauged U(1)LμLτ models by several low-energy observables and show that any significant excess in all but the highest photon energy bin would be an undeniable signature of such heavy scalar fields in SUSY coupling to Z. The number of signal events depends crucially on the logarithm of the ratio of stau to smuon mass in the presence of SUSY. In addition, the number is also inversely proportional to the e+e collision energy, making a low-energy, high-luminosity collider like Belle-II an ideal testing ground for this channel. This process can probe large swathes of the slepton mass ratio vs the additional gauge coupling (gX) parameter space. More importantly, it can explore the narrow slice of MZgX parameter space still allowed in gauged U(1)LμLτ models for superheavy sparticles.

Author

Sourov Roy (IACS, Kolkata)

Co-author

Heerak Banerjee (IACS, Kolkata)

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