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the 16 orders of magnitude difference between the electroweak and Planck scales (hierarchy problem), introduce |
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a natural candidate for the dark matter weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP), and lead to the unification of |
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gauge couplings. |
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In order to solve the hierarchy problem without fine-tuning, SUSY must introduce |
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In order to solve the hierarchy problem naturally (without fine-tuning), SUSY must introduce |
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light top and bottom squarks, the SUSY partners of the top and bottom quarks~\cite{ref:naturalsusy}. |
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If R-parity is conserved, the lightest SUSY particle (LSP), |
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usually the lightest neutralino \lsp, is a stable WIMP. If produced in pp collisions this |
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\caption{Example topologies with direct pair production of top (a,b) and bottom (b,c) squarks. |
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\caption{Example topologies with direct pair production of top (a,b) and bottom (c,d) squarks. |
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