Searching for Supersymmetry at Belle II
The search for supersymmetry is usually confined to the realm of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, scenarios in which the lightest supersymmetric particle is a neutralino with GeV-scale mass are allowed, as long as the squarks are heavy enough to avoid discovery at the LHC. In particular, the neutralino can be produced in B-meson decays thanks to third-generation R-parity-violating (RPV) couplings, which are poorly constrained.
I will describe proposed searches for a light neutralino at the Belle II experiment, utilizing kinematic constraints that arise from the near-threshold production of two B mesons for both missing-energy and displaced-vertex signatures. The proposed searches have the best sensitivity to third-generation RPV couplings. Potential extensions to other scenarios will be briefly discussed as well.