Thursday, December 6, 2012

1212.0898 (Radja Boughezal et al.)

Precise predictions for top quark plus missing energy signatures at the
LHC
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Radja Boughezal, Markus Schulze
We study the pair production of scalar top-quark partners decaying to a top-quark pair plus large missing energy at the LHC, a signature which appears in numerous models that address outstanding problems at the TeV-scale. The severe experimental search cuts require a description which combines higher-order corrections to both production and decay dynamics for a realistic final state. We do this at next-to-leading order in QCD for the first time. We find large, kinematic-dependent QCD corrections that differ dramatically depending upon the observable under consideration, potentially impacting the search for and interpretation of these states.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0898

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