Z ′ - mediated slepton and sneutrino signatures at the HL-LHC
We investigate the discovery potential of a heavy $Z'$ boson as a portal to charged sleptons and right-handed sneutrinos within the $B-L$ Supersymmetric Standard Model (BLSSM) at the High-Luminosity LHC. Using a detector-level simulation and Boosted Decision Trees to suppress Standard Model backgrounds, we find that the direct slepton decay $pp \to Z' \to \tilde{\ell}^+\tilde{\ell}^- \to 2\ell + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ yields a significance exceeding $5σ$ at 3000 fb$^{-1}$, while the cascade $(\mbox{multileptons} + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss})$ mode is unobservable due to rate suppression. For right-handed sneutrinos, the hadronic channel $pp \to Z' \to \tildeν_R\tildeν_I \to 2\ell + 4j + E{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ emerges as the most promising signature. These results establish the $2\ell + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ and $2\ell + 4j + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ final states as the principal discovery channels for the scalar leptonic sector of the BLSSM at the HL-LHC.
Authors
- N. Chamoun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-643X)
- K. Ezzat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0182-2642)
- Shaaban Khalil
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2026-11-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/k2x9-9k2f
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn