Z'-Mediated Slepton and Sneutrino Signatures at HL-LHC

Abstract

We investigate the discovery potential of a heavy $Z'$ boson as a portal to charged sleptons and right-handed sneutrinos within the $B-L$ Supersymmetric Standard Model (BLSSM) at the High-Luminosity LHC. Using a detector-level simulation and Boosted Decision Trees to suppress Standard Model backgrounds, we find that the direct slepton decay $pp \to Z' \to \tilde{\ell}^+\tilde{\ell}^- \to 2\ell + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ yields a significance exceeding $5σ$ at 3000 fb$^{-1}$, while the cascade $(\mbox{multileptons} + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss})$ mode is unobservable due to rate suppression. For right-handed sneutrinos, the hadronic channel $pp \to Z' \to \tildeν_R\tildeν_I \to 2\ell + 4j + E{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ emerges as the most promising signature. These results establish the $2\ell + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ and $2\ell + 4j + E_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}$ final states as the principal discovery channels for the scalar leptonic sector of the BLSSM at the HL-LHC.