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Top and SUSY a theoretical point of view
Yevgeny Kats Weizmann Institute of Science
7th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Cannes, 29 Sep – 3 Oct 2014
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Outline
motivates SUSY at LHC energies
Stops often lead to in SUSY signal
SM production is dominant background
to SUSY (but often quite manageable)
Measurements of cross section and
properties are sensitive to light superpartners
SM production is a useful calibration
sample for SUSY (and other scenarios)
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Top motivates SUSY @ LHC
h h
h h
f
W / Z / h
Largest contribution to Higgs mass divergence – from top
h h
W / Z / h
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t
t ~ t ~
Top motivates SUSY @ LHC
Stops cancel top divergences
h h
h h
h h
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SUSY gives tops in return
t ~ t
c / g ~ ~
gaugino gluino
SUSY counterpart of gauge interaction
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t ~ t
c / g ~ ~
SUSY counterpart of gauge interaction
gaugino gluino
SUSY gives tops in return
Example with stop pair production overall:
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t ~ t
c / g ~ ~
SUSY counterpart of gauge interaction
Example with stop pair production overall: Example with gluino pair production overall:
gaugino gluino
SUSY gives tops in return
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t ~ t
SUSY counterpart of gauge interaction
Example with stop pair production overall: Example with gluino pair production overall:
Example without real tops overall:
SUSY gives tops in return
(or )
c ~
gaugino
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t ~ t
SUSY counterpart of gauge interaction
Example with stop pair production overall: Example with gluino pair production overall:
Example without real tops overall: Different channels
are affected differently!
SUSY gives tops in return
(or )
c ~
gaugino
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t ~ t
c ~
SUSY counterpart of Higgs interaction
Example with stop pair production overall: Example with gluino pair production overall:
Example without real tops overall:
higgsino
SUSY gives tops in return
(or )
Different channels are affected differently!
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t ~ t
G ~
SUSY counterpart of gravity interaction
Example with stop pair production overall: Example with gluino pair production overall:
Example without real tops overall:
gravitino
SUSY gives tops in return
Different channels are affected differently!
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Top background dominates in many SUSY searches due to
High multiplicity (colored pair-production, then cascade)
b jets (due to stops, sbottoms, higgsinos, RPV)
SM top background is large
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SM top background is large
Top background dominates in many SUSY searches due to
High multiplicity (colored pair-production, then cascade)
b jets (due to stops, sbottoms, higgsinos, RPV)
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SM top background is large … but SUSY signal can be even larger
Gluino / 1st-generation squarks are constrained even when
… decays include tops
… and no other distinctive objects (extra MET, b-jets or leptons,
photons) – only tops and jets
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SM top background is large … but SUSY signal can be even larger
Gluino / 1st-generation squarks are constrained even when
… decays include tops
… and no other distinctive objects (extra MET, b-jets or leptons,
photons) – only tops and jets
In particular, generic searches
for many (7-10) jets + low MET
are sensitive very generally
almost up to the kinematic limit.
ATLAS: JHEP 1310 (2013) 130 CMS: JHEP 1406 (2014) 055
Asano, Rolbiecki, Sakurai, JHEP 1301 (2013) 128 Evans, YK, Shih, Strassler, JHEP 1407 (2014) 101 *Assuming a naturally light LSP (< 400 GeV)
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SM top background is large … but SUSY signal can be even larger
Gluino / 1st-generation squarks are constrained even when
… decays include tops
… and no other distinctive objects (extra MET, b-jets or leptons,
photons) – only tops and jets
In particular, generic searches
for many (7-10) jets + low MET
are sensitive very generally
almost up to the kinematic limit.
b’, t’ searches with many jets + lepton are sometimes sensitive too.
ATLAS: JHEP 1310 (2013) 130 CMS: JHEP 1406 (2014) 055
Asano, Rolbiecki, Sakurai, JHEP 1301 (2013) 128 Evans, YK, Shih, Strassler, JHEP 1407 (2014) 101 *Assuming a naturally light LSP (< 400 GeV)
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SM top background is large … but SUSY signal can be even larger
Gluino / 1st-generation squarks are constrained even when
… decays include tops
… and no other distinctive objects (extra MET, b-jets or leptons,
photons) – only tops and jets
In particular, generic searches
for many (7-10) jets + low MET
are sensitive very generally
almost up to the kinematic limit.
b’, t’ searches with many jets + lepton are sometimes sensitive too.
Scenarios where only lower cross section particles (e.g., stops) are
accessible might still be hiding in the top sample.
ATLAS: JHEP 1310 (2013) 130 CMS: JHEP 1406 (2014) 055
Asano, Rolbiecki, Sakurai, JHEP 1301 (2013) 128 Evans, YK, Shih, Strassler, JHEP 1407 (2014) 101 *Assuming a naturally light LSP (< 400 GeV)
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Light stops with top-like final states Example: decay to massless gravitino (gauge mediation)
YK and Shih JHEP 08 (2011) 049 overall:
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Light stops with top-like final states Example: decay to massless gravitino (gauge mediation)
overall:
ATLAS top
partner search
ATLAS xsec
DIL, pre-tag
projections for 300 pb-1
CDF xsec
DIL, pre-tag
D0 stop
search
CDF stop search
b-tagged
CDF stop search
with mass
reconstruction
YK and Shih JHEP 08 (2011) 049
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Later updated with new searches (and more data)
Generic SUSY searches are formally sensitive at low masses,
but cannot be interpreted reliably due to low efficiencies.
Limits from cross section are weaker, but robust.
LHC, 1/fb
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YK, Meade, Reece, Shih JHEP 1202 (2012) 115
dashed parts of curves:
eff(jet, MET cuts) < 1%
Light stops with top-like final states
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Eventually a very comprehensive set of dedicated stop searches were developed by ATLAS and CMS.
But low-MET corners, where the signature is very -like remained unconstrained.
More details in Till Eifert’s talk.
Light stops with top-like final states
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Using NNLO + NNLL theory cross section and CMS dilepton channel (2.3/fb at 7 TeV)
CMS Collaboration, JHEP 1211, 067 (2012)
Czakon, Mitov, Papucci, Ruderman, Weiler, arXiv:1407.1043
Most recent updates
Czakon, Fiedler, Mitov, PRL 110, 252004 (2013)
Czakon, Mitov, Papucci, Ruderman, Weiler, arXiv:1407.1043
Light stops with top-like final states
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Czakon, Mitov, Papucci, Ruderman, Weiler, arXiv:1407.1043
Most recent updates
Czakon, Mitov, Papucci, Ruderman, Weiler, arXiv:1407.1043
Light stops with top-like final states
In case top mass measurement is affected by stop contamination…
Using NNLO + NNLL theory cross section and CMS dilepton channel (2.3/fb at 7 TeV)
CMS Collaboration, JHEP 1211, 067 (2012)
Czakon, Fiedler, Mitov, PRL 110, 252004 (2013)
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Using NNLO + NNLL theory cross section and ATLAS dilepton channel (4.6/fb at 7 TeV + 20/fb at 8 TeV) ATLAS Collaboration, arXiv:1406.5375
Most recent updates
Czakon, Fiedler, Mitov, PRL 110, 252004 (2013)
Light stops with top-like final states
ATLAS Collaboration, arXiv:1406.5375
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Using NNLO + NNLL theory cross section and ATLAS dilepton channel (4.6/fb at 7 TeV + 20/fb at 8 TeV) ATLAS Collaboration, arXiv:1406.5375
Most recent updates
Czakon, Fiedler, Mitov, PRL 110, 252004 (2013)
Light stops with top-like final states
ATLAS Collaboration, arXiv:1406.5375
Limits improve further by 30-40% by using top-antitop spin correlation
To be presented in Till Eifert’s talk
ATLAS-CONF-2014-056
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A different example
multi-body decay with
RPV coupling LQD321
Light stops with top-like final states
RPV
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Evans and YK, arXiv:1311.0890
A different example
multi-body decay with
RPV coupling LQD321
Light stops with top-like final states
RPV
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Evans and YK, arXiv:1311.0890 CMS, arXiv:1408.0806
A different example
multi-body decay with
RPV coupling LQD321
Light stops with top-like final states
RPV
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Evans and YK, arXiv:1311.0890 CMS, arXiv:1408.0806
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find examples with stops…
A different example
multi-body decay with
RPV coupling LQD321
Light stops with top-like final states
RPV
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Light higgsinos with top-like final states Model-independent EW production
Cross section roughly 1/40 of stops
EW naturalness strongly suggests
mass
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Light higgsinos with top-like final states Model-independent EW production
Cross section roughly 1/40 of stops
EW naturalness strongly suggests
RPV decays provide a great source
for interesting benchmark models
to search for!
Two options for intermediate decays
mass
RPV
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Light higgsinos with top-like final states
Evans and YK (in progress)
Many final states enter the
sample (examples in the table).
Clearly not excluded by their
low cross sections (relative to
uncertainty), but maybe by their
distinct properties?
Jet multiplicity
b-jet multipicity
Excess in just one of the channels
Same sign tops/t’s (due to )
Variety of kinematic variables
Nice benchmark models for interpreting top
measurements as new physics searches.
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Tops as calibration for SUSY (and other kinds of new physics)
b tagging
Boosted techniques
Boosted tops from new heavy particles
Boosted BSM particles (e.g., stops) from new heavy particles
Measurement of b-quark polarization (NEW!)
(e.g., to distinguish between and )
Top is a great source of polarized b-quarks for calibration.
(Similarly for c-quark polarization.)
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Measurement of b-quark polarization Despite hadronization, bottom baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
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Measurement of b-quark polarization
chromomagnetic moment
b spin preserved during hadronization
Despite hadronization, bottom baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
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Measurement of b-quark polarization
1/2 0
b qq
b spin preserved during lifetime
chromomagnetic moment
b spin preserved during hadronization
Despite hadronization, bottom baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
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Measurement of b-quark polarization
Lb sample contaminated by
1/2 1
1/2 0
b qq b spin oscillates during lifetime
b spin preserved during lifetime
chromomagnetic moment
b spin preserved during hadronization
Despite hadronization, bottom baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
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Measurement of b-quark polarization
Lb sample contaminated by
1/2 1
1/2 0
b qq b spin oscillates during lifetime
b spin preserved during lifetime
chromomagnetic moment
b spin preserved during hadronization
Fragmentation fraction into baryons ≈ 10% (Mesons don’t contribute because the lightest are scalars)
Despite hadronization, bottom baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
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Despite hadronization, bottom baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
Size of the effect depends on unknown hadronization parameters.
Need to calibrate the measurement on a SM sample.
Measurement of b-quark polarization
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Despite hadronization, bottom baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
Size of the effect depends on unknown hadronization parameters.
Need to calibrate the measurement on a SM sample.
Evidence for polarization observed at LEP in .
ALEPH: PLB 365, 437 (1996) OPAL: PLB 444, 539 (1998) DELPHI: PLB 474, 205 (2000)
At the LHC, has large QCD background.
Top provides a clean sample of polarized b’s:
Measurement of b-quark polarization
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Despite hadronization, bottom baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
Size of the effect depends on unknown hadronization parameters.
Need to calibrate the measurement on a SM sample.
Evidence for polarization observed at LEP in .
ALEPH: PLB 365, 437 (1996) OPAL: PLB 444, 539 (1998) DELPHI: PLB 474, 205 (2000)
At the LHC, has large QCD background.
Top provides a clean sample of polarized b’s:
Pick up semileptonic Lb decays using “soft muon b-tagging”.
Reconstruct them to determine the polarization.
In lepton + jets channel of , 3s significance seems possible even
with 8 TeV data.
Measurement of b-quark polarization
Galanti, Giammanco, Grossman, YK, Stamou, Zupan (in progress)
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Despite hadronization, charm baryons partly retain polarization.
Falk and Peskin, PRD 49, 3320 (1994)
Size of the effect depends on unknown hadronization parameters.
Need to calibrate the measurement on a SM sample.
Probably best to use
Top provides a clean sample of polarized c’s for calibration:
Measurement of c-quark polarization
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Summary
motivates SUSY at LHC energies
Stops often lead to in SUSY signal
SM production is dominant background
to SUSY (but often quite manageable)
Measurements of cross section and
properties are sensitive to light superpartners
SM production is a useful calibration
sample for SUSY (and other scenarios)