JoAnne Hewett - Generation of a Large MSSM Model Data Set and a Study of Their Signals at the ILC

Thursday 31 Jul 2008, 16:15 → 16:30 US/Eastern

ICHEP08

We generate roughly 3000 MSSM models at random which are consistent with all collider, rare process, and cosmological data. We first take note of the properties of these models and compare them to the standard well-studied collider benchmark SUSY points. We then examine their signatures at the $\sqrt s=500$ GeV International Linear Collider with $80\%$ electron beam polarization. We determine whether the production of the various SUSY particles is visible above the Standard Model background for each of these parameter space points, and make a detailed comparison of their various signatures. Our analysis includes PYTHIA and CompHEP SUSY signal generation, full matrix element SM backgrounds for all $2\to 2\,, 2\to 4$, and $2\to 6$ processes, ISR and beamstrahlung generated via WHIZARD/GuineaPig, and employs the fast SiD detector simulation org.lcsim.

Slides 1615-JoAnne_Hewett.pdf 1615-JoAnne_Hewett.ppt