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Z′- mediated slepton and sneutrino signatures at the HL-LHC

Kareem Ezzat, Nidal Chamoun, and Shaaban Khalil

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 9 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/k2x9-9k2f

Abstract

We investigate the discovery potential of a heavy Z′ boson as a portal to charged sleptons and right-handed sneutrinos within the B−L Supersymmetric Standard Model (BLSSM) at the High-Luminosity LHC. Using a detector-level simulation and Boosted Decision Trees to suppress Standard Model backgrounds, we find that the direct slepton decay $pp \to Z' \to \tilde{\ell}^+\tilde{\ell}^- \to 2\ell + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ yields a significance exceeding 5σ at 3000 fb−1, while the cascade $(\mbox{multileptons} + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss})$ mode is unobservable due to rate suppression. For right-handed sneutrinos, the hadronic channel $pp \to Z' \to \tilde{\nu}_R\tilde{\nu}_I \to 2\ell + 4j + E{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ emerges as the most promising signature. These results establish the $2\ell + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ and $2\ell + 4j + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ final states as the principal discovery channels for the scalar leptonic sector of the BLSSM at the HL-LHC.

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