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We investigate the collider phenomenology of gluino-bino co-annihilation scenario both at the Tevatron and 7 TeV LHC. This scenario can be realized, for example, in a class of realistic supersymmetric models with non-universal gaugino masses and t − b−τ Yukawa unification. The NLSP gluino and LSP bino should be nearly degenerate in mass, so that the typical gluino search channels involving leptons or hard jets are not available. Consequently, the gluino can be lighter than various bounds on its mass from direct searches. We propose a new search for NLSP gluino involving multi-b final states, arising from the three-body decay \( \tilde{g} \to b\overline b \tilde{\chi }_1^0 \). We identify two realistic models with gluino mass of around 300 GeV for which the three-body decay is dominant, and show that a 4.5 σ observation sensitivity can be achieved at the Tevatron with an integrated luminosity of 10 fb−1. For the 7TeV LHC with 50 pb−1 of integrated luminosity, the number of signal events for the two models is \( \mathcal{O}\left( {10} \right) \), to be compared with negligible SM background events.
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Adeel Ajaib, M., Li, T., Shafi, Q. et al. NLSP gluino search at the Tevatron and early LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 28 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2011)028
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