Abstract
We study the effect of squark generation mixing on gluino production and decays at LHC in the minimal supersymmetric standard model for the case that the gluino is lighter than all squarks and dominantly decays into three particles, , . We assume mixing between the second and the third squark generations in the up-type and down-type squark sectors. We show that this mixing can lead to very large branching ratios of the quark-flavor violating gluino three-body decays despite the strong constraints on quark-flavor violation (QFV) from the experimental data on B mesons. We also show that the QFV gluino decay branching ratios are very sensitive not only to the generation mixing in the squark sector, but also to the parameters of the neutralino and chargino sectors. We show that the branching ratio of the QFV gluino decay can go up to . Analogously, that of the QFV decay can reach . We find that the rates of the resulting QFV signatures, such as , can be significant at LHC. This could have an important influence on the gluino searches at LHC.
3 More- Received 18 July 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.115026
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