Exploring Sensitivity to NMSSM Signatures with Low Missing Transverse Energy at the LHC
Résumé
We examine scenarios in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), where pair-produced squarks and gluinos decay via two cascades, each ending in a stable neutralino as Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) and a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson, with mass spectra such that the missing transverse energy, E$_{T}^{miss}$ , is very low. Performing two-dimensional parameter scans and focusing on the hadronic $ H\to b\overline{b} $ decay giving a $ b\overline{b}b\overline{b}+{E}_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{miss}} $ final state we explore the sensitivity of a current LHC general-purpose jets + E$_{T}^{miss}$ analysis to such scenarios.