Electroweak corrections to squark-antisquark production at the LHC

Hollik, Wolfgang, Lindert, Jonas M, Mirabella, Edoardo and Pagani, Davide (2015) Electroweak corrections to squark-antisquark production at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015. a99 1-33. ISSN 1029-8479

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Abstract

We present the calculation of the electroweak corrections for squark-antisquark pair production at the LHC within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Taking into account all possible chirality and light-flavor configurations, we evaluate the NLO EW corrections, which are of O(αs2α), as well as the subleading tree-level contributions of O(αsα) and Oα2. Numerical results are presented for several scans in the SUSY parameter space and relevant differential distributions are investigated. The impact of the electroweak corrections is nonnegligible and strongly depends on the chirality configuration of the produced squarks. Our analysis includes a discussion of photon-gluon initiated processes with a focus on the impact of the corresponding large PDF uncertainties.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Supersymmetry Phenomenology, NLO Computations
Schools and Departments: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
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Date Deposited: 25 Oct 2022 11:55
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 12:00
URI: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/108665

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