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Probing Minimal Supergravity at the CERN LHC for Large
For large values of the minimal supergravity model parameter , the
tau lepton and the bottom quark Yukawa couplings become large, leading to
reduced masses of -sleptons and -squarks relative to their first and
second generation counterparts, and to enhanced decays of charginos and
neutralinos to -leptons and -quarks. We evaluate the reach of the CERN
LHC collider for supersymmetry in the mSUGRA model parameter space. We
find that values of GeV can be probed with just 10
fb of integrated luminosity for values as high as 45, so
that mSUGRA cannot escape the scrutiny of LHC experiments by virtue of having a
large value of . We also perform a case study of an mSUGRA model at
where \tz_2\to \tau\ttau_1 and \tw_1\to \ttau_1\nu_\tau
with branching fraction. In this case, at least within our
simplistic study, we show that a di-tau mass edge, which determines the value
of m_{\tz_2}-m_{\tz_1}, can still be reconstructed. This information can be
used as a starting point for reconstructing SUSY cascade decays on an
event-by-event basis, and can provide a strong constraint in determining the
underlying model parameters. Finally, we show that for large there
can be an observable excess of leptons, and argue that signals
might serve to provide new information about the underlying model framework.Comment: 22 page REVTEX file including 8 figure