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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 88, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.095018
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- DOE (ANL) [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- DOE (Northwestern) [DE-FG02-91ER40684]
- Simons Foundation [230683]
- National Science Foundation [PHY11-25915]
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Current searches for direct production of scalar top quarks, or stops, in supersymmetry focus on their decays into bW(+)(chi) over tilde (0) by way of t (chi) over tilde (0) and b (chi) over tilde (+). While the polarization of the top quark depends on the stop mixing, the chargino turns out to be fully polarized when the bottom Yukawa coupling can be neglected relative to the top Yukawa coupling. We compute the energy and angular spectra of the charged lepton in the chargino channel, which could serve as the spin analyzer of the chargino. In addition, we demonstrate the top polarization could have a significant impact on the selection efficiencies in direct stop samples at the LHC, while the effect from the chargino polarization is less pronounced. Two observables in the laboratory frame, the opening angle between the charged lepton and the b quark and the energy of the b quark, are also proposed to optimize searches in the chargino channel versus the top channel.
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