Authors:
- Nominated as an outstanding contribution by the University of Tokyo's Physics Department in 2014
- Describes the search for long-lived massive particles based on a disappearing-track signature
- Covers a new tracking algorithm to enhance a track reconstruction efficiency for charged winos having short decay length
- Explores supersymmetric models with the pure neutral wino being the LSP, which are motivated by the property measurements of the Higgs boson at the LHC
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
In this book, the anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB) model is explored by searching for charged winos with their subsequent decays collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The author develops a new method, called “re-tracking,” to detect charged winos that decay before reaching the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) detector. Because the nominal tracking algorithm at the ATLAS experiment requires at least seven successive hits in the inner tracking system, the sensitivity to charged winos having a fraction of a nanosecond in the past analysis was therefore limited. However, re-tracking requires a minimum of three pixel hits and provides a fully efficient tracking capability for charged winos traversing the pixel detector, resulting in around about 100 times greater efficiency for charged winos with a lifetime ~0.2 ns longer than that in past searches.
Signal topology is characterized by a jet with large transverse momentum (pT), large missing transverse energy, and a high-pT disappearing track. There are three types of back
ground tracks: interacting hadron tracks, charged leptons, and tracks with mismeasured pT. A background estimation based on the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation suffers from large uncertainties due to poor statistics and has difficulty simulating the properties of background tracks. Therefore, a data-driven approach has been developed by the author of the book to estimate the background track-pT spectrum.
No significant excess above the background expectation is observed for candidate tracks with large transverse momentum, and constraints on the AMSB model are obtained. The author shows that in the AMSB model, a charged wino mass below 270 GeV is excluded at 95 % confidence level, which also directly constrains the mass of wino dark matter.
Authors and Affiliations
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The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shingo Kazama
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Search for Charginos Nearly Mass-Degenerate with the Lightest Neutralino
Book Subtitle: Based on a Disappearing-Track Signature in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV
Authors: Shingo Kazama
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55657-2
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55656-5Published: 30 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56284-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55657-2Published: 22 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 148
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics