Discovering baryon-number violating neutralino decays at the LHC

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Dec 11;103(24):241803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.241803. Epub 2009 Dec 10.

Abstract

Recently there has been much interest in the use of single-jet mass and jet substructure to identify boosted particles decaying hadronically at the LHC. We develop these ideas to address the challenging case of a neutralino decaying to three quarks in models with baryonic violation of R parity. These decays have previously been found to be swamped by QCD backgrounds. We demonstrate for the first time that such a decay might be observed directly at the LHC with high significance, by exploiting characteristics of the scales at which its composite jet breaks up into subjets.