: Higgsinos with masses near the electroweak scale can solve the hierarchy problem and provide a dark matter candidate, while detecting them at the LHC remains challenging if their mass splitting is O(1 GeV). This Letter presents a novel search for nearly mass-degenerate Higgsinos in events with an energetic jet, missing transverse momentum, and a low-momentum track with a significant transverse impact parameter using 140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment. For the first time since LEP, a range of mass splittings between the lightest charged and neutral Higgsinos from 0.3 to 0.9 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level, with a maximum reach of approximately 170 GeV in the Higgsino mass.
Search for Nearly Mass-Degenerate Higgsinos Using Low-Momentum Mildly Displaced Tracks in pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector / Add, G., Aloisio, A., Alviggi, M., Canale, V., Cirotto, F., Della Pietra, M., Merola, L., Massarotti, P., Rossi, E., Conventi, F., Izzo, V., Sekhniaidze, G.G., Iengo, P., Di Donato, C., De Asmundis, R., Carlino, G., D'Avanzo, A., Al, E.t.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 132:22(2024). [10.1103/physrevlett.132.221801]
Search for Nearly Mass-Degenerate Higgsinos Using Low-Momentum Mildly Displaced Tracks in pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
A. Aloisio;M. Alviggi;V. Canale;F. Cirotto;M. Della Pietra;L. Merola;P. Massarotti;E. Rossi;A. D'Avanzo;
2024
Abstract
: Higgsinos with masses near the electroweak scale can solve the hierarchy problem and provide a dark matter candidate, while detecting them at the LHC remains challenging if their mass splitting is O(1 GeV). This Letter presents a novel search for nearly mass-degenerate Higgsinos in events with an energetic jet, missing transverse momentum, and a low-momentum track with a significant transverse impact parameter using 140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment. For the first time since LEP, a range of mass splittings between the lightest charged and neutral Higgsinos from 0.3 to 0.9 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level, with a maximum reach of approximately 170 GeV in the Higgsino mass.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
