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Global fit studies performed in the pMSSM and the photon excess signal originating from the Galactic Center seem to suggest compressed electroweak supersymmetric spectra with a ∼100 GeV bino-like dark matter particle. We find that these scenarios are not probed by traditional electroweak supersymmetry searches at the LHC. We propose to extend the ATLAS and CMS electroweak supersymmetry searches with an improved strategy for bino-like dark matter, focusing on chargino plus next-to-lightest neutralino production, with a subsequent decay into a tri-lepton final state. We explore the sensitivity for pMSSM scenarios with Δm = m NLSP − m LSP ∼ (5 − 50) GeV in the \( \sqrt{s} = 14 \) TeV run of the LHC. Counterintuitively, we find that the requirement of low missing transverse energy increases the sensitivity compared to the current ATLAS and CMS searches. With 300 fb−1 of data we expect the LHC experiments to be able to discover these supersymmetric spectra with mass gaps down to Δm ∼ 9 GeV for DM masses between 40 and 140 GeV. We stress the importance of a dedicated search strategy that targets precisely these favored pMSSM spectra.
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van Beekveld, M., Beenakker, W., Caron, S. et al. The case for 100 GeV bino dark matter: a dedicated LHC tri-lepton search. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 154 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2016)154
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