28 August 2011 to 2 September 2011
Fermilab
US/Central timezone
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Distorted Mass Edges at LHC from supersymmetric Leptoquarks

29 Aug 2011, 14:30
20m
F: Wilson Hall 3NE

F: Wilson Hall 3NE

Speaker

Mr Daniel Wiesler (DESY)

Description

Supersymmetric (SUSY) Grand Unified Theories based on exceptional gauge groups like E6 have recently triggered a lot of interest. Aside from top-down motivations, they contain phenomenologically interesting states with leptoquark quantum numbers. Their SUSY partners, leptoquarkinos, will appear like all R-odd particles in decay cascades, but mass edges in kinematic distributions -- originating from the same semi-exclusive final states -- will however have major differences to the corresponding edges of ordinary squarks. This offers the opportunity to distinguish them from standard squark and slepton states in cascades with identical exclusive final states. On the other hand, ascribing distortion of the edges to combinatorical SUSY backgrounds could lead to misinterpretation of future LHC data.

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