Scalar color octets and triplets in the SUSY with R-symmetry

In this note we report on the recent progress in the study of the strongly interacting sector of the Minimal R-symmetric Supersymmetric Standard Model (MRSSM). First, we discuss the limits originating from the search of the sgluon pair production in the same-sign lepton final state at the LHC. Next, we present the first available in literature calculation of the NLO SQCD corrections to the same-sign squark pair production in the MRSSM. We discuss the relative size of $k$-factors compared to the MSSM and some technical details that led to this result.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, proceedings for the DISCRETE 2016: Fifth Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetrie

Squark production in R-symmetric SUSY with Dirac gluinos: NLO corrections

R-symmetry leads to a distinct realisation of SUSY with a significantly modified coloured sector featuring a Dirac gluino and a scalar colour octet (sgluon). We present the impact of R-symmetry on squark production at the 13 TeV LHC. We study the total cross sections and their NLO corrections from all strongly interacting states, their dependence on the Dirac gluino mass and sgluon mass as well as their systematics for selected benchmark points. We find that tree-level cross sections in the R-symmetric model are reduced compared to the MSSM but the NLO K-factors are generally larger in the order of ten to twenty per cent. In the course of this work we derive the required DREG $\to$ DRED transition counterterms and necessary on-shell renormalisation constants. The real corrections are treated using FKS subtraction, with results cross checked against an independent calculation employing the two cut phase space slicing method.Comment: 46 pages, 15 figures; updated to match published versio

Higgs boson mass and electroweak observables in the MRSSM

R-symmetry is a fundamental symmetry which can solve the SUSY flavor problem and relax the search limits on SUSY masses. Here we provide a complete next-to-leading order computation and discussion of the lightest Higgs boson mass, the W boson mass and muon decay in the minimal R-symmetric SUSY model (MRSSM). This model contains non-MSSM particles including a Higgs triplet, Dirac gauginos and higgsinos, and leads to significant new tree-level and one-loop contributions to these observables. We show that the model can accommodate the measured values of the observables for interesting regions of parameter space with stop masses of order 1 TeV in spite of the absence of stop mixing. We characterize these regions and provide typical benchmark points, which are also checked against further experimental constraints. A detailed exposition of the model, its mass matrices and its Feynman rules relevant for computations in this paper is also provided.Comment: added references, matches the published versio

Two-loop correction to the Higgs boson mass in the MRSSM

We present the impact of two-loop corrections on the mass of the lightest Higgs boson in the Minimal R-symmetric Supersymmetric Standard Model (MRSSM). These shift the Higgs boson mass up by typically 5 GeV or more. The dominant corrections arise from strong interactions, from the gluon and its N=2 superpartners, the sgluon and Dirac gluino, and these corrections further increase with large Dirac gluino mass. The two-loop contributions governed purely by Yukawa couplings and the MRSSM $\lambda,\Lambda$ parameters are smaller. We also update an earlier analysis [Diessner:2014ksa], which showed that the MRSSM can accommodate the measured Higgs and W boson masses. Including the two-loop corrections increases the parameter space where the theory prediction agrees with the measurement.Comment: To be submitted to "Supersymmetry beyond the NMSSM", Advances in High Energy Physic

Exploring the Higgs sector of the MRSSM with a light scalar

In a recent paper we showed that the Minimal R-symmetric Supersymmetric Standard Model (MRSSM) can accommodate the observed 125 GeV Higgs boson as the lightest scalar of the model in agreement with electroweak precision observables, in particular with the W boson mass and $T$ parameter. Here we explore a scenario with the light singlet (and bino-singlino) state in which the second-lightest scalar takes the role of the SM-like boson with mass close to 125 GeV. In such a case the second-lightest Higgs state gets pushed up via mixing already at tree-level and thereby reducing the required loop correction. Unlike in the NMSSM, the light singlet is necessarily connected with a light neutralino which naturally appears as a promising dark matter candidate. We show that dark matter and LHC searches place further bounds on this scenario and point out parameter regions, which are viable and of interest for LHC Run II and upcoming dark matter experiments.Comment: 31 pages, updated for submissio

Benchmarking the Inert Doublet Model for e+ e- colliders

We present benchmarks for the Inert Doublet Model, a Two Higgs Doublet Model with a dark matter candidate. They are consistent with current constraints on direct detection, including the most recent bounds from the XENON1T experiment and relic density of dark matter, as well as with known collider and low-energy limits. We focus on parameter choices that promise detectable signals at lepton colliders via pair-production of H+H- and HA. For these we choose a large variety of benchmark points with different kinematic features, leading to distinctly different final states in order to cover the large variety of collider signatures that can result from the model.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figure, 5 tables; v2: corresponds to published version. Comments on future prospects adde

The Inert Doublet Model at current and future colliders

We discuss the status of the Inert Doublet Model, a two-Higgs doublet model that obeys a discrete Z2 symmetry and provides a dark matter candidate. We discuss all current theoretical and experimental constraints on the model as well as discovery prospects at current and future colliders.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; to be published in the proceedings of DISCRETE2018: 6th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, Vienna, 26.-30.11.18; v2: minor changes; corresponds to accepted proceedings versio

Production of tau tau jj final states at the LHC and the TauSpinner algorithm: the spin-2 case

The TauSpinner algorithm is a tool that allows to modify the physics model of the Monte Carlo generated samples due to the changed assumptions of event production dynamics, but without the need of re-generating events. With the help of weights $\tau$-lepton production or decay processes can be modified accordingly to a new physics model. In a recent paper a new version TauSpinner ver.2.0.0 has been presented which includes a provision for introducing non-standard states and couplings and study their effects in the vector-boson-fusion processes by exploiting the spin correlations of $\tau$-lepton pair decay products in processes where final states include also two hard jets. In the present paper we document how this can be achieved taking as an example the non-standard spin-2 state that couples to Standard Model particles and tree-level matrix elements with complete helicity information included for the parton-parton scattering amplitudes into a $\tau$-lepton pair and two outgoing partons. This implementation is prepared as the external (user provided) routine for the TauSpinner algorithm. It exploits amplitudes generated by MadGraph5 and adopted to the TauSpinner algorithm format. Consistency tests of the implemented matrix elements, reweighting algorithm and numerical results for observables sensitive to $\tau$ polarization are presented.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures; version published in EPJ

Sgluons in the same-sign lepton searches

In this work I present the interpretation of the ATLAS search of same-sign lepton production in association with $b$-jets in the context of the 4-top quark signal from sgluon decays. I show that using just 3.2/fb data sample from Run 2 the exclusion limit is already competitive with the Run 1 one. Public data allow to exclude sgluons with masses up to 0.95 TeV. Prospects for the total Run 2 integrated luminosity of 100/fb are briefly discussed.Comment: added missing ancillary materials, corrected error in scale variation band in Fig. 3, added 1 new reference, updated Monte Carlo statistic

Ascertaining the spin for new resonances decaying into tau+ tau- at Hadron Colliders

Evidence of a new particle with mass ~125 GeV decaying into a pair of tau leptons at the Large Hadron Collider spurs interest in ascertaining its spin in this channel. Here we present a comparative study between spin-0 and spin-2 nature of this new particle, using spin correlations and decay product directions. The TauSpinner algorithm is used to re-weight distributions from qqbar -> gamma/Z -> tau+ tau- sample to simulate a spin-2 state exchange. The method is based on supplementing the Standard Model matrix elements with those arising from presence of a new interaction. Studies with simulated samples demonstrate the discrimination power between these spin hypotheses based on data collected at the Large Hadron Collider.Comment: 17 pages, 16 encapsulated postscript figure