A simulation of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking with a supersymmetric tau as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle in the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collide

Abstract

The feasibility for mass measurements of supersymmetric particles from minimal gauge mediated models in the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider is studied using parameterized simulations. The covered models are characterized by having the supersymmetric tau as the only next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP). Given independent measurements of the lightest Higgs mass and the NLSP lifetime, a sufficient number of supersymmetric particle mass measurements are performed such that all underlying model parameters are constrained.