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We examine scenarios in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), where pair-produced squarks and gluinos decay via two cascades, each ending in a stable neutralino as Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) and a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson, with mass spectra such that the missing transverse energy, E missT , is very low. Performing two-dimensional parameter scans and focusing on the hadronic \( H\to b\overline{b} \) decay giving a \( b\overline{b}b\overline{b}+{E}_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{miss}} \) final state we explore the sensitivity of a current LHC general-purpose jets + E missT analysis to such scenarios.
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Titterton, A., Ellwanger, U., Flaecher, H.U. et al. Exploring sensitivity to NMSSM signatures with low missing transverse energy at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 64 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)064
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