GMSB SUSY models with non pointing photons signatures in ATLAS at the LHC

Abstract

The reconstruction of non pointing photons is a key feature for studying gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking (GMSB) models at the LHC. In this article the angular resolution of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter is characterized from a detailed simulation of the detector. Resulting performances are used to reconstruct GMSB events with a fast simulation program, taking into account reconstruction effects. Finally, the sensitivity to extract the sparticles masses and the lightest neutralino lifetime is estimated.

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the XXXXth Rencontres de Moriond: QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, March 12-19, 2005