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Combined collider constraints on neutralinos and charginos
Athron, Peter Balázs, Csaba Buckley, Andy Cornell, Jonathan M. Danninger, Matthias Farmer, Ben Fowlie, Andrew Gonzalo, Tomás E. Harz, Julia Jackson, Paul
Athron, Peter
Balázs, Csaba
Buckley, Andy
Cornell, Jonathan M.
Danninger, Matthias
Farmer, Ben
Fowlie, Andrew
Gonzalo, Tomás E.
Harz, Julia
Jackson, Paul
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Searches for supersymmetric electroweakinos have entered a crucial phase, as the integrated luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider is now high enough to compensate for their weak production cross-sections. Working in a framework where the neutralinos and charginos are the only light sparticles in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, we use GAMBIT to perform a detailed likelihood analysis of the electroweakino sector. We focus on the impacts of recent ATLAS and CMS searches with of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data. We also include constraints from LEP and invisible decays of the Z and Higgs bosons. Under the background-only hypothesis, we show that current LHC searches do not robustly exclude any range of neutralino or chargino masses. However, a pattern of excesses in several LHC analyses points towards a possible signal, with neutralino masses of = (8–155, 103–260, 130–473, 219–502) GeV and chargino masses of = (104–259, 224–507) GeV at the 95% confidence level. The lightest neutralino is mostly bino, with a possible modest Higgsino or wino component. We find that this excess has a combined local significance of 3.3𝜎, subject to a number of cautions. If one includes LHC searches for charginos and neutralinos conducted with 8 TeV proton-proton collision data, the local significance is lowered to 2.9𝜎. We briefly consider the implications for dark matter, finding that the correct relic density can be obtained through the Higgs-funnel and Z-funnel mechanisms, even assuming that all other sparticles are decoupled. All samples, GAMBIT input files and best-fit models from this study are available on Zenodo.
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2019-05-08
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GAMBIT Collaboration:., Athron, P., Balázs, C. et al. Combined collider constraints on neutralinos and charginos. Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 395 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6837-x