Signals of neutralinos and charginos from gauge boson fusion at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

We point out that interesting signals of the nonstrongly interacting sector of the supersymmetric standard model arise from the production of charginos and neutralinos via vector boson fusion (VBF) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In particular, if R-parity is violated, the hadronically quiet signals of charginos and neutralinos through direct production get considerably suppressed. We show that in such cases the VBF channel can be useful in identifying this sector through clean and background-free final states.