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A light singlino in the NMSSM can reduce considerably the missing transverse energy at the end of sparticle decay cascades; instead, light NMSSM-specific Higgs bosons can be produced. Such scenarios can be consistent with present constraints from the LHC with all sparticle masses below ∼1 TeV. We discuss search strategies, which do not rely on missing transverse energy, for such scenarios at the next run of the LHC near 14 TeV.
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Ellwanger, U., Teixeira, A.M. NMSSM with a singlino LSP: possible challenges for searches for supersymmetry at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 113 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2014)113
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