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We investigate signatures of the minimal supersymmetric inverse seesaw model at the large hadron collider (LHC) with three isolated leptons and large missing energy in the final state. This signal has its origin in the decay of chargino-neutralino \( \left( {\widetilde{\chi }_1^\pm \widetilde{\chi }_2^0} \right) \) pair, produced in pp collisions. The two body decays decay of the lighter chargino into a charged lepton and a singlet sneutrino has a characteristic decay pattern, which is correlated with the observed large atmospheric neutrino mixing angle. This correlation is potentially observable at the LHC by looking at the ratios of cross sections of the trilepton + channels in certain flavour specific modes. We show that even after considering possible leading standard model backgrounds these final states can lead to reasonable discovery significance at the LHC with both 7 TeV and 14 TeV center-of-mass energy.
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Mondal, S., Biswas, S., Ghosh, P. et al. Exploring novel correlations in trilepton channels at the LHC for the minimal supersymmetric inverse seesaw model. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 134 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2012)134
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