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Light stops emerging in WW cross section measurements?

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 9, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)004

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Supersymmetry; Hadron-Hadron Scattering

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  1. MICINN, Spain [FPA2010-17747]
  2. Consolider-Ingenio CPAN [CSD2007-00042]
  3. Comunidad de Madrid [HEPHACOS S2009/ESP-1473]
  4. European Commission [PITN-GA-2009-237920]

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Recent ATLAS and CMS measurements show a slight excess in the W+W- cross section measurement. While still consistent with the Standard Model within 1-2-sigma, the excess could be also a first hint of physics beyond the Standard Model. We argue that this effect could be attributed to the production of scalar top quarks within supersymmetric models. The stops of m((t) over tilde1) similar to 200 GeV has the right pair-production cross section and under some assumptions can significantly contribute to the final state of two leptons and missing energy. We scan this region of parameter space to identify stop mass range preferred by the W+W- cross section measurements. Taking one sample benchmark point we show that it can be consistent with low energy observables and Higgs sector measurements and propose a method to distinguish supersymmetric signal from the Standard Model contribution.

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