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Search for Nearly Mass-Degenerate Higgsinos Using Low-Momentum Mildly Displaced Tracks in pp Collisions at √s=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 132, no. 22
Publication date2024
First online date2024-05-30
Abstract

Higgsinos with masses near the electroweak scale can solve the hierarchy problem and provide a dark matter candidate, while detecting them at the LHC remains challenging if their mass splitting is O(1  GeV). This Letter presents a novel search for nearly mass-degenerate Higgsinos in events with an energetic jet, missing transverse momentum, and a low-momentum track with a significant transverse impact parameter using 140  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13  TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment. For the first time since LEP, a range of mass splittings between the lightest charged and neutral Higgsinos from 0.3 to 0.9 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level, with a maximum reach of approximately 170 GeV in the Higgsino mass.

Keywords
  • P p: scattering
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Transverse momentum: missing-energy
  • Scale: electroweak interaction
  • Tracks
  • Mass difference
  • ATLAS
  • Dark matter: direct detection
  • CERN LEP Stor
  • Transverse
  • Hierarchy
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Higgsino: mass
  • Impact parameter
  • Track data analysis
  • Data analysis method
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
  • S046WNO
  • S046ZNO
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. Search for Nearly Mass-Degenerate Higgsinos Using Low-Momentum Mildly Displaced Tracks in pp Collisions at √s=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector. In: Physical review letters, 2024, vol. 132, n° 22. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.221801
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