Discriminating Supersymmetry and Black Holes at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Author

Arunava Roy
Marco Cavaglia, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow

Abstract

We show how to differentiate the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model from black hole events at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Black holes are simulated with the CATFISH generator. Supersymmetry simulations use a combination of pythia and isajet. Our study, based on event-shape variables, visible and missing momenta, and analysis of dilepton events, demonstrates that supersymmetry and black hole events at the LHC can be easily discriminated.

Recommended Citation

A. Roy and M. Cavaglia, "Discriminating Supersymmetry and Black Holes at the CERN Large Hadron Collider," Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 77, no. 6, American Physical Society (APS), Mar 2008.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.064029

Department(s)

Physics

Sponsor(s)

United States. Department of Energy

Comments

This work was supported (in part) by U.S. DOE Contract No. DEFG05-91ER40622.

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1550-7998

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Final Version

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2008 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Mar 2008