Squark Flavor Violation at the LHC

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We consider the prospects for measuring squark flavor violation through the signal of single top production at the LHC.

• We study this signal in the context of R-symmetric supersymmetry, which allows for large flavor violation in the squark sector, however the results can also be generalized to the MSSM.
• The single top signal arises from squark pair production in which one squark decays to a top and gaugino, whereas the other squark decays to a non-top quark and gaugino.
• We study three decay patterns: (I) squark decay into a quark and neutralino LSP; (II) squark decay into a quark and neutralino NLSP, with subsequent decay of the NLSP to a photon and gravitino; (III) squark decay into a quark and chargino NLSP, with subsequent decay of the NLSP to a H^\pm/W^\pm and gravitino.