The ATLAS Leptonic-$Z$ Excess from Light Squark Productions in the NMSSM Extension with a Heavy Dirac Gluino

Abstract

The ATLAS Collaboration announced a 3$\sigma$ excess in the leptonic-$Z+jets+\met$ channel. We show that such an excess can be interpreted in the extension of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) with a heavy Dirac gluino and light squarks. The abundant $Z$ bosons can be produced by light squark pair productions with the subsequent decays $\tilde{q} \to q \tilde{\chi}_2^0 \to q Z \tilde{\chi}_1^0$. We investigate the relevant parameter space by considering the constraints from both the ATLAS and CMS direct SUSY searches. Our model can provide sufficient $Z$-signal events in large parameter space if only the ATLAS searches are considered. After combining the ATLAS and CMS searches, the maximal number of signal events can still reach about 15, which is within the $1\sigma$ region of the observed excess. For comparison, we study the conventional low energy NMSSM with a Majorana gluino and its maximal number of signal events are about 11, although we cannot realize such model in the known supersymmetry breaking scenarios.