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The ABC of RPV: classification of R-parity violating signatures at the LHC for small couplings

2023; Springer Nature; Volume: 2023; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/jhep07(2023)215

1127-2236

Herbi K. Dreiner, Yong Sheng Koay, Dominik Köhler, Víctor Martín Lozano, J. Montejo Berlingen, Saurabh Nangia, N. Strobbe,

Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

We perform a classification of all potential supersymmetric $R$-parity violating signatures at the LHC to address the question: are existing bounds on supersymmetric models robust, or are there still signatures not covered by existing searches, allowing LHC-scale supersymmetry to be hiding? We analyze all possible scenarios with one dominant RPV trilinear coupling at a time, allowing for arbitrary LSPs and mass spectra. We consider direct production of the LSP, as well as production via gauge-cascades, and find 6 different experimental signatures for the $LL\bar E$-case, 6 for the $LQ\bar D$-case, and 5 for the $\bar U\bar D\bar D$-case; together these provide complete coverage of the RPV-MSSM landscape. This set of signatures is confronted with the existing searches by \texttt{ATLAS} and \texttt{CMS}. We find all signatures have been covered at the LHC, although not at the sensitivity level needed to probe the direct production of all LSP types. For the case of a dominant $LL\bar E$-operator, we use \texttt{CheckMATE} to quantify the current lower bounds on the supersymmetric masses and find the limits to be comparable to or better than the $R$-parity conserving case. Our treatment can be easily extended to scenarios with more than one non-zero RPV coupling.