2014

Closing the stop gap

Czakon, Michal, Mitov, Alexander, Papucci, Michele et al.

Understand

Light stops are a hallmark of the most natural realizations of weak-scale supersymmetry.

  • While stops have been extensively searched for, there remain open gaps around and below the top mass, due to similarities of stop and top signals with current statistics.
  • We propose a new fast-track avenue to improve light stop searches for R-parity conserving supersymmetry, by comparing top cross section measurements to the theoretical prediction.
  • Stop masses below ~ 180 GeV can now be ruled out for a light neutralino.

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