Searching for a Single Photon from Lightest Neutralino Decays in R-parity-violating Supersymmetry at FASER

Abstract

In this work, we propose a search for a single photon at \texttt{FASER} and \texttt{FASER2}, produced from decays of bino-like, sub-GeV lightest neutralinos in the theoretical framework of the R-parity-violating (RPV) Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We consider a list of representative benchmark scenarios with one or two non-vanishing RPV couplings. The photon has an energy $\mathcal{O}\left(0.1\right)-\mathcal{O}\left(1\right)$ TeV. We find a sensitivity reach for RPV couplings beyond the current bounds by orders of magnitude at \texttt{FASER} and \texttt{FASER2}.

Comments: v1: 17 pages + references, 11 figures, 2 tables; v2: 19 pages + references, 11 figures, 2 tables accepted for publication in JHEP