Speaker: 
Alexander Titterton
Speaker affiliation: 
University of Southampton
Date: 
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 12:30
Room: 
Seminar room (46/5081)
Title: 
Exploring Sensitivity to NMSSM Signatures with low MET at the LHC
Abstract: 

We examine scenarios in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), where pair-produced squarks and gluinos decay via two cascades, each ending in a stable neutralino as Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) and a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson, with mass spectra such that the missing transverse energy, MET, is very small. Performing two-dimensional parameter scans and focusing on the hadronic H→bb¯ decay giving a 4b+MET final state we explore the sensitivity of a current LHC general-purpose jets+MET analysis to such scenarios. Slides can be found here.