Extracting the flavor structure of a baryon number R-parity violating coupling at the LHC.

Abstract

The detection of the flavour content of jets produced from R-parity violating neutralino decays is investigated in the case where one baryon-number violating coupling dominates. Simulations are performed of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC for all couplings, other than λ′′ tjk since neutralino decays through these couplings are very suppressed. Secondary vertex distributions and muons produced by heavy-quark (b- and c-) jets allow discrimination between LSP decay modes. The dominant coupling can be identified at better than 3.5 σ in almost all cases, with the only remaining ambiguity caused by the inability to distinguish strange from down quarks.