Zeroing in on Supersymmetric Radiation Amplitude Zeros

Abstract

Radiation amplitude zeros have long been used to test the Standard Model. Here, we consider the supersymmetric radiation amplitude zero in chargino-neutralino associated production, which can be observed at the luminosity upgraded LHC. Such an amplitude zero only occurs if the neutralino has a large wino fraction and hence this observable can be used to determine the neutralino eigenstate content. We find that this observable can be measured by comparing the p_T spectrum of the softest lepton in the trilepton ${\chi }_1^{\pm }{\chi }_2^0$ decay channel to that of a control process such as ${\chi }_1^{+}{\chi }_1^{-}$ or ${\chi }_2^0{\chi }_2^0$. We test this technique on a previously generated model sample of the 19 dimensional parameter space of the phenomenological MSSM, and find that it is effective in determining the wino content of the neutralino.

Comments: 19 pages, 7 figures