https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3530-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Studying the sensitivity of monotop probes to compressed supersymmetric scenarios at the LHC
1
CERN, PH-TH, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
2
Département Recherches Subatomiques, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, 23 rue du Loess, 67037, Strasbourg, France
3
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
* e-mail: benjamin.fuks@iphc.cnrs.fr
Received:
18
March
2015
Accepted:
17
June
2015
Published online:
4
July
2015
We investigate the sensitivity of the Large Hadron Collider to supersymmetric setups using monotop probes in which the signal is a single top quark produced in association with missing transverse energy. Our prospective study relies on Monte Carlo simulations of 
of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV and considers both leptonic and hadronic monotop decays. We present analysis strategies sensitive to regions of the supersymmetric parameter space which feature small superparticle mass splittings and illustrate their strengths in the context of a particular set of benchmark scenarios. Finally, we compare the regions of parameter space expected to be accessible with monotops probes during the next run of the LHC to the reach of more traditional search strategies employed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, where available.
© SIF and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015
