Probing neutrino mass with displaced vertices at the Fermilab Tevatron

F. de Campos, O. J. P. Éboli, M. B. Magro, W. Porod, D. Restrepo, and J. W. F. Valle
Phys. Rev. D 71, 075001 – Published 5 April 2005

Abstract

Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model exhibiting bilinear R-parity violation can generate naturally the observed neutrino mass spectrum as well as mixings. One interesting feature of these scenarios is that the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is unstable, with several of its decay properties predicted in terms of neutrino mixing angles. A smoking gun of this model in colliders is the presence of displaced vertices due to LSP decays in large parts of the parameter space. In this work we focus on the simplest model of this type that comes from minimal supergravity with universal R-parity conserving soft breaking of supersymmetry augmented with bilinear R-parity breaking terms at the electroweak scale (RmSUGRA). We evaluate the potential of the Fermilab Tevatron to probe the RmSUGRA parameters through the analysis of events possessing two displaced vertices stemming from LSP decays. We show that requiring two displaced vertices in the events leads to a reach in m1/2 twice the one in the usual multilepton signals in a large fraction of the parameter space.

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  • Received 17 January 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.075001

©2005 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

F. de Campos1,*, O. J. P. Éboli2,†, M. B. Magro2,‡, W. Porod3,4,§, D. Restrepo3,5,∥, and J. W. F. Valle3,¶

  • 1Departamento de Física e Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Guaratinguetá-SP, Brazil
  • 2Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil
  • 3Instituto de Física Corpuscular, C.S.I.C./Universitat de València, Edificio Institutos de Paterna, Apartado 22085, E-46071 València, Spain
  • 4Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universitat Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 5Instituto de Física, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

  • *Electronic address: fernando@ift.unesp.br
  • Electronic address: eboli@fma.if.usp.br
  • Electronic address: magro@fma.if.usp.br
  • §Electronic address: porod@ific.uv.es
  • Electronic address: restrepo@uv.es
  • Electronic address: valle@ific.uv.es

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Vol. 71, Iss. 7 — 1 April 2005

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