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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
The first limit on invisible decays of mesons comes from LEP
Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez1,2, Miguel Escudero Abenza3
1Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 Rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8 Canada.
Abstract:
Motivated by the recent evidence for decays at Belle II, we point out that fully invisible and meson decays are strongly constrained by LEP. A reinterpretation of an old inclusive ALEPH search for b-hadron decays with large missing energy allows us to place the limits and , both at CL. The limit is only a factor of 6 looser than the world-leading one provided by the BaBar collaboration, while the one is the first limit in the literature on this decay mode. These results are relevant in the context of new light states coupled to quarks and exemplify the power of a future Tera-Z factory at FCC-ee to look for B meson decays containing missing energy.
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