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SUSY stops at a bump

Journal of High Energy PhysicsPublished 1 August 2012Open access
Christopher Brust, Andrey Katz, Raman Sundrum
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Abstract

We discuss collider signatures of the "natural supersymmetry" scenario with\nbaryon-number violating R-parity violation. We argue that this is one of the\nfew remaining viable incarnations of weak scale supersymmetry consistent with\nfull electroweak naturalness. We show that this intriguing and challenging\nscenario contains distinctive LHC signals, resonances of hard jets in\nconjunction with relatively soft leptons and missing energy, which are easily\noverlooked by existing LHC searches. We propose novel strategies for\ndistinguishing these signals above background, and estimate their potential\nreach at the 8 TeV LHC. We show that other multi-lepton signals of this\nscenario can be seen by currently existing searches with increased statistics,\nbut these opportunities are more spectrum-dependent.\n

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