2010/10/31 by Jürgen Reuter, Jurgen Reuter, Daniel Wiesler · 10 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Aside #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Confusion #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Large Hadron Collider #Leptoquark #Nuclear physics #Observable #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Philosophy #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum mechanics #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.84.015012
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 84(1) (American Physical Society) · 8 pages, 8 figures, revised version, title changed in journal
arxiv created 2011/07/21 · openalex publication_date 2011/07/21 · arxiv updated 2011/07/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Supersymmetric (SUSY) grand unified theories based on exceptional gauge groups such as E6 have recently triggered a lot of interest. Aside from top-down motivations, they contain phenomenologically interesting states with leptoquark quantum numbers. Their SUSY partners, leptoquarkinos, will appear similar to all R-odd particles in decay cascades, but mass edges in kinematic distributions---originating from the same semiexclusive final states---will however have major differences to the corresponding edges of ordinary squarks. This distortion of standard observables bears the opportunity to detect them at the LHC, but may also pose significant confusion of underlying model assumptions, which should be handled with care and, if interpreted falsely, might even prevent a possible discovery.