The highest league in national eSports, the ESL Pro Series, will start in Poland! Counter-Strike 1.6 and America's Army are the games of the Polish ESL Pro Series. The best teams in Poland will play against each other and 40,000 PLN (about 12,000 Euro) prize money. The ESL Pro Series will start in October 2008 and will end with spectacular offline finals in February 2009.
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ESL TV confirms their presence for the European Regional Finals of the 2008 Blizzard Tournaments in Madrid. On spot the team will feed all the ESL visitors with full coverage of both tournaments, so make sure you tune in at 6th and 7th of September and follow Europe's finest battling it out for a spot at the grand final.


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Q: I have created a combobox with checkboxes But I am unable to catch the event when a checkbox is checked The code to generate a checkable combobox is as follows:
def check_able_combox(combo, options, length):

    model = QStandardItemModel(length, 1) # 4 rows, 1 col
    for i,area in enumerate(options):
        item = QStandardItem(area)
        item.setFlags(Qt.ItemIsUserCheckable | Qt.ItemIsEnabled)
        item.setData(Qt.Unchecked, Qt.CheckStateRole)
        model.setItem(i, 0, item)
    combo.setModel(model)
    return combo

And I am using the above function in this manner:
self.checkable_combobox_usecases =check_able_combox(self.usecaseTypeCombobox, usecase_type, len(usecase_type))

where, self.usecaseTypeCombobox is a regular combobox that I have created and
       usecase_type
is a list ["Test1", "Test2", "Test3"]
So, I do get a combobox with checkboxes with this code. But I also want to capture the text of the checkbox which I am checking. Could someone please guide me how to capture this event?
I tried with
self.checkable_combobox_usecases.currentIndexChanged.connect(self.get_UsecaseType)
--> but it did not work

A: The currentIndexChanged signal is only emitted when an item is selected, not when an item is checked so that signal will not work.
Considering the above is to use the itemChanged signal of the model that is emitted when some information changes, in this case that signal would be emitted when the checkbox status changes but also when any other information associated with the roles changes, in order to discriminate we must remember the status previous and check if it has changed.
from PyQt5.QtCore import pyqtSlot, Qt
from PyQt5.QtGui import QStandardItem, QStandardItemModel
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QComboBox, QMainWindow

LastStateRole = Qt.UserRole + 1000

def check_able_combox(combo, options):
    model = QStandardItemModel(len(options), 1)
    for i, area in enumerate(options):
        item = QStandardItem(area)
        item.setFlags(Qt.ItemIsUserCheckable | Qt.ItemIsEnabled)
        item.setData(Qt.Unchecked, Qt.CheckStateRole)
        model.setItem(i, 0, item)
    combo.setModel(model)

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super().__init__(parent)
        self.usecaseTypeCombobox = QComboBox()

        usecase_type = ["Test1", "Test2", "Test3"]
        check_able_combox(self.usecaseTypeCombobox, usecase_type)

        self.setCentralWidget(self.usecaseTypeCombobox)

        self.usecaseTypeCombobox.model().itemChanged.connect(self.on_itemChanged)

    @pyqtSlot("QStandardItem*")
    def on_itemChanged(self, item):
        last_state = item.data(LastStateRole)
        current_state = item.data(Qt.CheckStateRole)
        # verify that the modified data is related to the Qt::CheckStateRole role
        if last_state != current_state:
            # save last state
            item.model().blockSignals(True)
            item.setData(current_state, LastStateRole)
            item.model().blockSignals(False)

            print(current_state, item.text())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys

    app = QApplication(sys.argv)

    w = MainWindow()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

A: When you connect a slot to a signal, the slot function signature should match with signal.
Here the signature of signal, based on documentation is
PySide2.QtWidgets.QComboBox.currentIndexChanged(index)

you need to define a function, that takes index as input parameter.
So something like this (rough code):
def selectionchange(self,i):
      print "Current index",i,"selection changed ",self.checkable_combobox_usecases.currentText()

and while connecting try like something below in check_able_combox function
combo.currentIndexChanged.connect(self.selectionchange)

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He, H. S., Shang Z. B., Crow, T. R., Gustafson, E. J., Shifley, R. S. 2004. Simulating forest fuel and fire risk dynamics across landscapes—LANDIS fuel module design. Ecological Modelling 180: 135-151.
He, H. S., Larsen, D. R., Mladenoff, D. J. 2002. Exploring component based approaches in forest landscape modeling. Environmental Modelling and Software 17: 519-529.
He, H. S., D. J. Mladenoff, and J. Boeder. 1999. Object-oriented design of LANDIS, a spatially explicit and stochastic landscape model. Ecological Modelling 119: 1-19.
Mladenoff, D. J., and He, H. S. 1999. Design and behavior of LANDIS, an object-oriented model of forest landscape disturbance and succession. In D. J. Mladenoff and W. L. Baker (editors), Advances in spatial modeling of forest landscape change: approaches and applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Shang Z. B., He, H. S., Crow, T. R., Shifley, R. S. 2004. Fuel load reductions and fire risk in central hardwood forests of the United States: a spatial simulation study. Ecological Modelling 180: 89-102.
Sturtevant, B. R., Gustafson, E. J., He, H. S. 2004. Modeling disturbance and succession in forest landscapes using LANDIS: introduction. Ecological Modelling 180: 1-5.
Yang, J., He, H. S., Gustafson, J. E. 2004. A hierarchical statistical approach to simulate the temporal patterns of forest fire disturbance in LANDIS model. Ecological Modelling 180: 119-133.


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RFID Technology and Remote Finger Print Scanning Raises More Questions About Privacy
While PositiveID Corporation has completed a temperature-sensing microchip with its Wireless Body platform, Advanced Optical Systems (AOS) has built a remote finger print scanning device capable of remotely scanning for finger prints. Both technologies raise questions about privacy issues and potential misuse by governments.
PositiveID teamed up with RFID Solutions, to develop the temperature-sensing microchip for use in humans. The Company expects its Wireless Body platform will continue to evolve with the addition of other bio-sensing capabilities, including glucose-sensing through its GlucoChip™, which is currently under development. The Wireless Body will be designed to allow healthcare systems to communicate with each other and deliver information to and from patients.
Scott R. Silverman, Chairman and CEO of PositiveID, said, "With the completion of this first bio-sensing microchip we will also explore other bio-sensing functions to integrate with the Wireless Body through our patent for an embedded bio-sensor system to improve remote patient monitoring."
However, critics of the technology aren't praising the chip. Jonathan Wilcox, a privacy lawyer and critic of invasive biometric technologies says the chip brings corporations and government one step closer to tracking every aspect of our lives. "Bio-sensing technologies are far too invasive and easily manipulated to allow healthcare digital systems to track, record, store and catalogue private information which should only be transferable between patient and their health practitioner," said Wilcox. "The information could then be transferred to any third party company should the healthcare system deem it necessary."
Another company Advanced Optical Systems (AOS) is also doing its best to keep fingerprints as the preferred method of identification and now it can be done at a distance. The company has built a remote fingerprint scanner with the ability to accurately read a print up to two meters away, and military views the system as a tool for security checkpoints all over the world. The AIRPrint system is a significant upgrade over previous biometric security systems because it allows a person's identity to be confirmed by government or military personnel from behind the solid and immovable objects.
AIRPrint uses a source of polarized light and two 1.3 megapixel cameras (one to receive vertically polarized light and another to receive horizontally polarized light) in order to produce an accurate fingerprint. The prototype is able to scan and verify a print in under five seconds, and AOS claims that soon the equipment will be capable of reading five prints simultaneously while a person is moving toward or away from the device. The system will be ready for market in the third quarter of this year, which is a windfall for Big Brother.
Wilcox says the technology could easily be used to steal fingerprints from unsuspecting and innocent civilians who could then be exposed to identity theft. "Everything is going biometric, including many types of personal document and licensure requirements, so if this type of technology falls into the wrong hands, a new breed of crime could emerge and essentially duplicate the identity of another person in seconds."
Marco Torres is a research specialist, writer and consumer advocate for healthy lifestyles. He holds degrees in Public Health and Environmental Science and is a professional speaker on topics such as disease prevention, environmental toxins and health policy.
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Exelon's relocation of Three Mile Island's Emergency Operations Facility (EOF) and Joint Information Center (JIC) to Chester County focused on geographic and technical considerations, as well as cost savings. These are important and meaningful components of this discussion. However, it is also necessary to review the history of communication and emergency preparedness problems at Three Mile Island (TMI).
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The recent influx of critical texts focusing on theorizing dance over the past decade have attempted to remedy the medium's relative state of neglect in the academy compared to other mediums such as literature, art, film, music and theater1. While it would be unthinkable that a university would not have a department of Art History or Literature, very few institutions have a department of Dance, and when they do, the focus is usually on practical dance technique classes, designed to give students a break from the demands of their 'real' work. The implicit message is that dance is something you do, not something that you approach with the same amount of rigorous theoretical inquiry as one would approach a painting, or a written text. In the traditional model within media theory of "Image, Sound, and Text", dance falls into a strangely indeterminate space. It produces a visual image, however, that image is ever changing in space and time, and ultimately disappears altogether. It is sometimes accompanied by the sound of music, and it can be read like a text—but a 'text' that is 'written' on the body, without words. The dancing body in motion has largely been left out of the linguistic turn and the pictorial turn2 due to the way it belongs at once to both categories and to neither of them. And so the question would remain, what is dance as a medium? And will it ever get its 'turn' within the field of media studies and the academy in general?
The OED defines the verb "to dance" as "to leap, skip, hop, or glide with measured steps and rhythmical movements of the body, usually to the accompaniment of music", and it defines the noun "dance" as "a rhythmical skipping and stepping, with regular turnings and movements of the limbs and body, usually to the accompaniment of music; either as an expression of joy, exultation, and the like, or as an amusement or entertainment"3. Both definitions attest to a variety of issues with defining dance as a medium. First, there is the type of movement itself and the difficulty of describing it, in part due to the sheer proliferation of categories and contexts in which dance emerges—within the context of religious ritualistic dance, folk dance, social dance (from nineteenth-century waltzs to tangos, salsas and contemporary clubbing), to the "theatrical" staged dance in its various forms (ballet, modern dance, post-modern dance to name just a few broad categories). While some of these dance movement patterns might be described as "leaping, skipping, hopping, or gliding", hardly all will fall into this pattern, and indeed, this selection of adjectives to describe dance movements seems, at best, rather limited and curious, and at worst, symptomatic of the tendency to dismiss and trivialize dance as mere "rhythmical skipping". Second, the definition of the noun dance imposes a normative, and similarly limited view of dance as always "rhythmical" with "regular" turnings, in which the "limbs" appear oddly disassociated from the "body", and which is "either an expression of joy and exultation OR an amusement and entertainment", leaving out the possibility that dance might express a wide spectrum of emotions, including pain, or grief. The shortcomings of this definition still manage to provide several helpful inroads into thinking about dance—that it involves 1) a patterned, rhythmical movement through 2) the medium of the body that 3) attempts to "express" something.
However, almost immediately complications arise around these three constitutive elements. As Roger Copeland and Marshall Cohen write in the introduction to their ground-breaking critical anthology "What is Dance?", "dance is sometimes defined as any patterned, rhythmic movement in space and time"4. However, as they note, on the basis of this definition dance could include the flight patterns and movements of bees. If one is to specify dance as any "patterned, rhythmic movement by a human in space and time", one could still include a variety of human activities ranging from chopping down a tree, to marching in a parade, to ice skating5. It would thus seem necessary within the scope of this essay, to leave aside some of the broader sociological and anthropological contexts in which dance can be defined, and focus on it as an art form, in terms of its connection to imitation, expression and form6. When viewed within this context, pressure is placed on the idea that dance occurs exclusively through the medium of the body, when one considers the other elements (design, lighting, costumes) of dance performance ranging from Loie Fuller's voluminous flowing fabric, to the flamenco dancers castanets, to the virtuoso hybridity of the Ballet Russes. Similarly, the notion of expression becomes complicated depending highly on the form of dance in question, and how that dance can be placed in relation to imitation.
In Poetics Aristotle defines dance as a form that "imitates character, emotion, and action, by rhythmical movement."7 However, even within one dance genre, there are a variety of ways that one could 'imitate', and as this definition attests, there are a variety of categories that one could imitate, and then there is also the possibility that dance may not imitate at all. For instance, ballet has both sequences of pantomime in which a series of gestures explicitly imitates a scenario, or character, while also using a more abstract gestural and physical code, (such as a pirouette, an entrechat or a pas de deux) that does not directly imitate a character or situation, but articulates and expresses meaning through a formal pattern of gestures and movements that constitutes a unique 'language' of ballet. In order to highlight how the language of ballet departs from modes of imitation, dance critics and choreographers have either emphasized its formal qualities and patterns or its symbolic and expressive capacities. The debate about dance's ability to imitate or 'purely' express, further intensifies over different dance genres, such as ballet and modern dance. The emergence of Modern Dance in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries directly challenged the highly codified and disciplined choreography of ballet. As a key figure to Modern Dance, Isadora Duncan emphasized dance's expressive capacity, rejecting what she perceived as the artificial, and restrictive movement of ballet, for self-choreographed movements that "naturally" expressed inner impulses and emotions. She believed that dance was "an outward expression of the soul."8
In both Ballet and Modern Dance, the literal movements and gestures of the body (however different the movements and gestures appear across these two dance genres) have often been interpreted as representing, symbolizing, expressing or signifying an action, character, emotion—or even its own formal elements. Thus, critics have "read" the body dancing as a kind of "text"9 that can be read both literally and figuratively—on the one hand, the body can be 'read' as embodying and mediating various cultural constructions and gender formations, on the other hand, the dance can be read abstracted from the body, as a metaphor for signification and metaphorizing itself. The French symbolist poet Mallarme, famously wrote of dance and the dancer as "always a symbol, never a person"10. He believed dance was a pure symbol that served as the perfect metaphor for writing, without being encumbered by written language, and thus, the dancer "suggests things which the written work could express only in several paragraphs of dialogue or descriptive prose. Her poem is written without the writer's tools."11 Dance retains a complex relationship to the realm of language. It has alternately been idealized as "speaking" or "writing" in a more "natural" physical code of the body, gesture and movement, then the medium of the words, however, it has also been marginalized for not being as rigorous as the signifying system of language. As dance scholar Ann Daly writes, dance has a history of being conceived as "purely primitive, 'pre-verbal', idiosyncratic, infantile, female and uncoded, in opposition to the civilized, social, adult, male reasoned code of language."12 The idea of construing dance as "uncoded" refers both to the issue of how choreography13 translates into a notated, written form14, as well as to the way dance places pressure against the idea of textuality and discursive structure itself by instead using the movements and gestures of the body to articulate and express. Dance embodies a variety of codes and symbolic inscriptions that do not place it "beyond the symbolic", but instead work within a different mode, or alternate symbolic order in which it could be said that "dance speaks, yet it speaks otherwise."15
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1 Desmond, Jane. Meaning in Motion. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).
2 Mitchell, WJT. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. (Chicago: Univ of Chicago, 1994), 11.
3 "Dance" Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd Edition, 1989.
4 Copeland, Roger, and Marshall Cohen, eds. What Is Dance?. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), 1.
5 Copeland and Cohen 1
7 Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S.H Butcher. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1961), 50.
8 Daly, Ann. Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995) , 32.
9 See for instance, Goellner, Ellen W, and Jacqueline S Murphy, eds . Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
10 Mallarme, Stephane. "Ballets". In What is Dance?. Eds. Roger Copeland and Marshall Cohen. (Oxford: Oxford Univ Press, 1983/1886-97), 112.
11 Mallarme 112
12 Daly, Ann. "Isadora Duncan and the Male Gaze". In Gender in Performance. Ed. Laurence Senelick. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1992), 246.
13 For issues of composition and choreography see Foster, Susan Leigh. Reading Dance: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance. (Los Angeles: Univ of California Press, 1986).
14 Labanotation is perhaps the most successful dance notation, included in dance curriculums and used by the Dance Notation Bureau to preserve the choreography of dance performances. See www.dancenotation.org and Guest, Ann Hutchinson. "Labanotation" The International Encyclopedia of Dance. Ed. Selma Jeanne Cohen and the Dance Perspectives Foundation. Oxford University Press, 2003.
15Ruprecht, Lucia. Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffman and Heinrich Heine. (Burlington: Ashgate, 2006) , 18.
Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S.H Butcher. New York: Hill and Wang, 1961.
Copeland, Roger, and Marshall Cohen, eds. What Is Dance?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Daly, Ann. Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America. Bloomington: Indiana Univ Press, 1995
Daly, Ann. "Isadora Duncan and the Male Gaze". In Gender in Performance. Ed. Laurence Senelick. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1992.
"Dance". Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd Edition, 1989
Foster, Susan Leigh. Reading Dance: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986
Guest, Ann Hutchinson. "Labanotation" The International Encyclopedia of Dance. Ed. Selma Jeanne Cohen and the Dance Perspectives Foundation. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://oxfordreference.com/proxy.uchicago.edu
Mallarme, Stephane. "Ballets". In What is Dance?. Eds. Roger Copeland and Marshall Cohen. Oxford: Oxford Univ Press, 1983/1886-97.
Mitchell, W.J.T. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago: Univ of Chicago, 1994.
Ruprecht, Lucia. Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffman and Heinrich Heine. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006.
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Two people were killed and police were called out to more than 1,000 road crashes across Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah during Eid Al Fitr.
Police in Dubai responded to more than 900 incidents in just three days and also fielded nearly 27,000 calls to the public on both emergency and non-emergency numbers.
Sharjah Police said that two people lost their lives and another nine suffered moderate to severe injuries as a total of 11 road incidents were recorded in the emirate from June 13 to 17.
Police also received more than 24,000 calls, covering criminal, traffic, emergency and non-emergency cases, over the same four days.
Police in Ras Al Khaimah dealt with 287 crashes and also received 4,832 reports – on everything from requests for assistance and various inquiries – during the break.
RAK Police said the number of road crashes was down by 40 per cent on the number recorded in the same period the previous year.
The number in Dubai also fell from 1,300 during last year's Eid Al Fitr holiday to 905 this year.
Excessive speed and improper passing of pedestrians were cited as the causes of the two fatalities in Sharjah, police said.
"The first death occurred when the driver lost control over the wheel due to excessive speed and colliding into a shop wall, while the second death took place at Emirates Road after a pedestrian decided to cross the six-lane road from a non-designated area," said Colonel Dr Ahmad Al Naour, acting director-general of Sharjah Police central operations.
Brig Gen Salem Al Suwaidi, of RAK Police, said a number of initiatives had been put in place to improve safety – but he said here are "always" drivers whose behaviour leads to death and injury on the road.
"The Traffic Department has developed an intensive traffic plan to organise the traffic during Eid Al Fitr through increasing the number of patrols on all roads, intersections, markets, parks and places of family gatherings to provide the maximum security and safety for all and provide assistance and support if needed," Brig Gen Al Suwaidi said.
"However, there is always a category that insists on behaving in a way that leads to fatal accidents and injuries," he said.
Dubai Police said excessive speeding, drivers failing to keep a safe distance between other vehicles and being distracted on the road were the main causes of incidents.
"Some 905 traffic accidents occurred across Dubai during Eid Al Fitr. Over-speeding, failing to leave a safe distance between vehicles and being distracted on the roads are among the main causes of traffic accidents," said Col Turki bin Faris, director of the Command and Control Department of Dubai Police.
Col Bin Faris said some of the accidents that took place during Eid Al Fitr were moderate to minor.
"The events security committee came up with a comprehensive traffic plan, which led to reducing traffic jams during the holiday," he added.
Col Bin Faris has urged to public to only contact 999 for emergencies and to call 901 to inquire about services provided by the police after a huge increase in the volume of calls.


Not long ago, small-business owners found it nearly impossible to receive a business loan from a big bank. These days, big banks are approving more than one-in-five funding requests from small-business owners, which is more than twice as many approvals than they were granting at the end of 2011.
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\section{Introduction}
Supersymmetry is among the most interesting and well motivated
Standard Model (SM) extensions. It offers solutions to different SM
problems including dark matter, naturalness and gauge couplings unification
~\cite{Martin:1997ns}. If supersymmetry is indeed a true symmetry of Nature it should be
broken in some way. In the standard approach the MSSM lagrangian is
supplied with so-called soft terms which break supersymmetry
explicitly. All mechanisms of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking which explain existence of these terms inevitably use so-called ``hidden sector''~\cite{Martin:1997ns} where spontaneous supersymmetry breaking occurs. The information that
supersymmetry is broken is then transmitted to the observable sector
by means of some messenger fields. In the simplest case ``hidden sector'' can be decribed by one singlet chiral superfield $\left(\phi, \psi,
F_{\phi}\right)$ \footnote{See~\cite{Brignole:1996fn,Luty:1996um} for
  extensive discussion of possibility of charged ``hidden sectors''.}.
Here $\psi$ is a massless Goldstone fermion called goldstino, $\phi$
is its scalar superpartner, sgoldstino, and $F_\phi$ is an auxiliary
field. The scale of supersymmetry breaking is often denoted as
$\sqrt{F}$, where $F$ -- is a vacuum expectation value of the
auxiliary field $F_{\phi}$. In supergravity theories, where supersymmetry is promoted to a local symmetry, goldstino becomes a longitudinal part of spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ particle -- gravitino $\tilde{G}$ -- due to Super-Higgs mechanism~\cite{Volkov:1973jd,Deser:1977uq,Cremmer:1978iv}. Gravitino mass $m_{3/2}$ is then completely determined by the scale of supersymmetry
breaking $\sqrt{F}$
\[
m_{3/2} = \sqrt{\frac{8\pi}{3}} \frac{F}{M_{\rm Pl}}.
\]

If gravitino is sufficiently heavy, e.g. its mass is of order of
electroweak scale $v$, then $\sqrt{F} \sim \sqrt{M_{\scriptstyle \rm{Pl}}~v} \sim
10^{10} - 10^{11}~\rm{GeV}$ and the effective theory near the
electroweak scale is just the MSSM endowed with the soft terms. However models  with relatively light gravitino (i.e. with a mass of several keV) also exist and are phenomenologically viable. In particular, this is the case of models with gauge mediated SUSY breaking~\cite{Dine:1981za,Dimopoulos:1981au,Dine:1981gu,Dine:1982zb,Nappi:1982hm,AlvarezGaume:1981wy,Dine:1993yw,Dine:1994vc,Dine:1995ag} and no-scale supergravity~\cite{Ellis:1984kd,Ellis:1984xe,Lahanas:1986uc} models where $\sqrt{F}\sim 10 - 100~\rm{TeV}$. However in this study we will focus on the case when $\sqrt{F}$ lies even lower, i.e. when it is of order of several TeVs, which means that gravitino mass lies in sub-eV range. This can be realized in warped~\cite{Gherghetta:2000qt,Gherghetta:2000kr} SUSY models and composite~\cite{Luty:1996um} models with charged ``hidden sector''. Although there is not a lot of models of the latter class their study is interesting for the following reasons. First of all, the couplings of particles from the ``hidden sector'' with other SM fields scale as powers of $1/F$. In this way, the smaller $F$ the stronger manifestation of new physics effect would be. Second, perturbative unitarity constrains possible masses of sgoldstinos~\cite{Brignole:1996fn}. In particular, their masses cannot be significantly larger than $\sqrt{F}$ scale. If $\sqrt{F}$ is of order of several TeVs than sgoldstino mass can lie in a range, the LHC~\cite{Gorbunov:2002er,Demidov:2004qt,Asano:2017fcp} and forthcoming experiments~\cite{Astapov:2015otc,Astapov:2016koq} will be sensitive to. In the regime when typical collision energy is much large than the gravitino mass, i.e. $E \gg m_{3/2}$, equivalence theorem~\cite{Fayet:1977vd,Casalbuoni:1988kv,Casalbuoni:1988qd} allows to approximate gravitino interactions by interactions of its longtitudial part
\[
\tilde{G} \sim \frac{\partial_{\mu} \psi}{m_{3/2}}.
\]
Hence the effective lagrangian describing interactions of ultralight gravitino with the MSSM fields can be constructed using properties of goldstino. In this study we deal with sub-eV gravitinos being produced at the LHC at 8 TeV. Hence throughout this paper we do not make any difference between goldstino and gravitino.

Search for a signal from physics beyond the Standard Model is one of the top priority goals of the LHC experiments at the moment. Many different signatures are
thoroughly scrutinized to constrain models of new physics. Although the LHC experiments do not have any significant evidence of a
signal from SUSY, this class of models remains the most extensively studied. Different aspects of collider phenomenology of low scale
supersymmetry breaking have been studied  for instance in~\cite{Demidov:2004qt,Perazzi:2000ty,Perazzi:2000id,Dudas:2012fa,Gorbunov:2000ht,Brignole:2003cm,Petersson:2012nv}. Gravitino production is one of the most distinct signatures of this
setup~\cite{Dicus:1991wj,Shirai:2009kn,Mawatari:2014cja,Ellis:1996aa,Klasen:2006kb,Brignole:1998me,Brignole:1997sk,Petersson:2012dp}.
Due to its $R$-odd nature, LSP goldstino would be always produced in
pairs. In this paper we discuss jet-plus-missing-momentum signature of
the process of gravitino pair production at the LHC. It has been recently
carefully studied in~\cite{Maltoni:2015twa} where authors redid jet plus
transverse missing energy analysis performed by ATLAS with a part of run-I data
to constrain gravitino mass or equivalently supersymmetry breaking
scale. However, in that work the limit of very heavy sgoldstino
(with mass about 20~TeV) was considered. The goal of our work is to
include possibility of TeV scale sgoldstino contribution.

The paper is organized as follows. In Section~\ref{sec1} we describe a minimal model with goldstino
supermultiplet and introduce possible interactions of this
supermultiplet to the SM fields. In Section~\ref{sec2} we
discuss processes contributing to the gravitino pair production in
proton-proton collisions and in particular discuss contribution of light
sgoldstinos. Then we describe bounds on the parameters of the
model from missing energy signature analysis performed in our work
using run-I data of the LHC experiments and
describe comparison of the obtained results to those obtained using dijet
searches. Section~\ref{conclusions} contains our conclusions.

\section{Model description}
\label{sec1}
\noindent
We choose a simple Polonyi model~\cite{Polonyi:1977pj} to describe dynamics of the ``hidden
sector''
\begin{equation}
\label{mdl:lgr1}
\mathcal{L}_{\Phi} = \int \, d^2 \theta \, d^2 \bar{\theta} \left(
\Phi^{\dagger}\Phi + \tilde{K} (\Phi^{\dagger},\Phi)\right) + \left(
\int d^2 \theta F \Phi + \text{h.c.} \right),
\end{equation}
where $\Phi = \phi+\sqrt{2} \theta \psi + \theta^2 F_{\phi}$ is goldstino
chiral superfield and non-canonical part of the Kahler potential
$\tilde{K}$ can be chosen in the form\footnote{Here $~K(\phi,\phi^*) = \phi^*
  \phi + \tilde{K}(\phi,\phi^*)$. Also we use shorthand notations
  \[
  W_{\phi} = \frac{\partial W(\phi)}{\partial \phi},~\overline{W}_{\phi^*}
  = \frac{\partial \overline{W}(\phi^*)}{\partial \phi^*},~K_{\phi \phi^*}
  = \frac{\partial^2 K(\phi, \phi^*)}{\partial \phi \partial \phi^*},
  \]
}
\begin{equation}
\label{mdl:lgr2}
\tilde{K}(\Phi^{\dagger},\Phi) = - \frac{m_{s}^2+m_{p}^2}{8F^2}
\left(\Phi^{\dagger}\Phi \right)^2 - \frac{m_{s}^2-m_{p}^2}{12F^2}
\Phi^{\dagger} \Phi \left(\Phi^2+(\Phi^{\dagger})^2\right).
\end{equation}
Non-renormalizable operators in this expression can be  generated by
integrating out some heavy states in the microscopic theory.
The scalar potential of the model has the following form\footnote{Hereafter we assume
  that all parameters in the lagrangian are real. In particular, $F
  = F^*$.}
\begin{equation}
  \label{mdl:lgr3}
  V(\phi^{*},\phi) = W_{\phi} \overline{W}_{\phi^*} K_{\phi \phi^*}^{-1} =
  \frac{F^2}{\displaystyle 1-\frac{m_s^2+m_p^2}{2F^2} \vert \phi \vert^2 -
    \frac{m_s^2-m_p^2}{4F^2}(\phi^2+(\phi^*)^2)} =
  \frac{F^2}{\displaystyle 1-\frac{m_s^2 s^2+m_p^2 p^2}{2F^2}} .
\end{equation}
This potential has a local minimum where $\langle s \rangle = \langle
p \rangle = 0$ and its expansion around local minimum gives proper
mass term for CP-even (s) and CP-odd (p) sgoldstinos
\[
V(s,p) = F^2+\frac{m_s^2 s^2}{2}+\frac{m_p^2 p^2}{2} +
\mathcal{O}\left(\frac{1}{F^2}\right)
\]
In particular, if $m_{s} \neq m_{p}$ scalar and pseudoscalar components of
$\phi = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left(s+ i p\right)$ get different masses.
Furthermore, we see that vacuum has positive energy density, $\langle V
\rangle = F^2 > 0$, so supersymmetry is spontaneously
broken. Auxiliary fields $F_{\phi}$ and $F_{\phi}^*$ acquire non-zero
vacuum expectation values
\begin{equation}
  \label{mdl:lgr4}
  \left. F_{\phi} \right|_{\rm{vac}}= \left. \left(\frac{1}{2}
  K_{\phi^* \phi \phi} (\psi \psi) - \overline{W}_{\phi^*} \right) K_{\phi
    \phi^*}^{-1} \right|_{\rm{vac}} = -F
\end{equation}
\noindent
As was already mentioned in the Introduction the quantity
$\sqrt{F}$ has dimension of energy and has the meaning of energy scale
of supersymmetry breaking.

Interaction of goldstino superfield $\Phi$ with other particles
of MSSM, i.e.``visible'' sector, can be introduced by making use
of spurion technique. Recall that soft terms in lagrangian of the MSSM
formally can be written in ``manifestly supersymmetric'' way by using the
following operators
\[
\left. S^{\dagger} S \Phi^{\dagger} \Phi \right|_{D}, \left. \mu S
\Phi^2 \right|_{F}, \left. S \Phi^3 \right|_{F}, \left. S W^{\alpha}
W_{\alpha} \right|_{F},
\]
where $S = \theta^2 m_{\rm soft}$ is a spurion superfield, $\Phi$ is a matter
chiral superfield and $W^{\alpha}$ is a gauge field strength. We
promote spurion $S$ to the dynamical field $\Phi$, containing goldstino
and sgoldstinos by the following rule
\[
S \to m_{\rm soft} \frac{\Phi}{F},
\]
In what follows we will be interested in interactions between invisible and QCD sectors of the MSSM. Spurion method allows to describe this interaction by the following lagrangian
\begin{eqnarray}
  \label{mdl:lgr5}
  \begin{aligned}
    & \mathcal{L}_{\Phi-\rm{vis}} =  - \int d^2 \theta d^2
    \theta^{\dagger} \frac{M_{\tilde{q}_{L},ij}^2}{F^2} \Phi^{\dagger}
    \Phi Q_{L,i}^{\dagger} e^{2gV} Q_{L,j} - \int d^2 \theta d^2
    \theta^{\dagger} \frac{M_{\tilde{u}_{R},ij}^2}{F^2} \Phi^{\dagger}
    \Phi U_{R,i}^{\dagger}  e^{2gV} U_{R,j} -\\
    & - \int d^2 \theta d^2 \theta^{\dagger}
    \frac{M_{\tilde{d}_{R},ij}^2}{F^2} \Phi^{\dagger} \Phi
    D_{R,i}^{\dagger}  e^{2gV} D_{R,j} + \left( \frac{M_{3}}{2F} \int d^2
    \theta~\Phi W^{\alpha} W_{\alpha} + \rm{h.c.} \right).
    \end{aligned}
\end{eqnarray}
Here $Q_{L,i}$, $U_{R,i}$ and $D_{R,i}$ are (s)quarks superfields, $W^{\alpha}$ is a strength tensor superfield containing gluons and gluinos, $M_{\tilde{q}_{L},ij}$, $M_{\tilde{u}_{R},ij}$, $M_{\tilde{d}_{R},ij}$ and $M_{3}$ are respective soft masses and indices $i,j$ run over generations of quarks. Apart from soft quark and gluino masses the above lagrangian generates a tower of interactions of goldstino with the MSSM fields. In particular it contains the following operators obtained by expansion
of component field lagrangian in powers of $1/F$
\begin{eqnarray}
  \label{mdl:lgr6}
  \begin{aligned}
    & \mathcal{L}_{\psi-\rm{vis}} \supset  \frac{M_{3}}{4\sqrt{2}F}
    \bar{\psi} \left [ \gamma^{\mu}, \gamma^{\nu} \right ] \lambda^{a}
    F_{\mu \nu}^{a} - \frac{i M_{\tilde{d}_{R},ij}^2}{F}
    \left(\tilde{d}_{R,i}^{\dagger} \bar{\psi} P_{R} d_{j} -
    \bar{d}_{j} P_{L} \psi \tilde{d}_{R,i} \right) - \\
    & - \frac{i M_{\tilde{u}_{R},ij}^2}{F}
    \left(\tilde{u}_{R,i}^{\dagger} \bar{\psi} P_{R} u_{j} -
    \bar{u}_{j} P_{L} \psi \tilde{u}_{R,i} \right) + \frac{i
      M_{\tilde{q}_{L},ij}^2}{F} \left(\tilde{q}_{L,i}^{\dagger}
    \bar{\psi} P_{L} q_{j}  - \bar{q}_{j} P_{R} \psi \tilde{q}_{L,i}
    \right) - \\
    & - \frac{M_{\tilde{d}_{R},ij}^2}{F^2} (\bar{\psi} P_{R} d_{i})
    (\bar{d}_{j} P_{L} \psi) -  \frac{M_{\tilde{u}_{R},ij}^2}{F^2}
    (\bar{\psi} P_{R} u_{i}) (\bar{u}_{j} P_{L} \psi) -
    \frac{M_{\tilde{q}_{L},ij}^2}{F^2} (\bar{\psi} P_{L} q_{j})
    (\bar{q}_{i} P_{R} \psi)
  \end{aligned}
\end{eqnarray}
which we will use in our study\footnote{We make use of four-component spinors in~\eqref{mdl:lgr5} -- \eqref{mdl:lgr7}. We've also redefined goldstino field
$\psi \to i \gamma_{5} \psi$ in~\eqref{mdl:lgr6}. This corresponds to redefinition of two-component spinor $\psi^{\alpha} = -i \psi^{\alpha}$.}. Here $\tilde{q}_{L,i}$, $\tilde{u}_{R,i}$ and $\tilde{d}_{R,i}$ denote  squarks and $\lambda^{a}$ denotes gluino field. It was shown in~\cite{Lee:1998aw} that in the case of negligible squark mixing lagrangian \eqref{mdl:lgr6} is equivalent to Goldberger-Treiman lagrangian up to some redefinition of fields
\begin{equation}
  \label{mdl:lgr5_a}
  \mathcal{L}_{GT} = \frac{1}{F} \partial_{\mu} \psi^{\alpha}
  J_{\alpha}^{\mu} + \rm{h.c.},
\end{equation}
with $J_{\alpha}^{\mu}$ being a supercurrent of the MSSM which contains all of the fermion-boson pairs from the visible sector.
This equivalence means that both interaction lagrangian result in identical amplitudes for processes with a single
external goldstino. Nonetheless, they give different answers for double goldstino production. Since in this study we are interested in
the latter case we utilize~\eqref{mdl:lgr6} together with relevant part of interaction lagrangian (see Eqs.~\eqref{mdl:lgr1}, \eqref{mdl:lgr2} and~\eqref{mdl:lgr5}) containing scalar and pseudoscalar
sgoldstinos
\begin{equation}
  \label{mdl:lgr7}
  \mathcal{L}_{\phi-\psi} = \frac{m_s^2}{2\sqrt{2}F}s\bar{\psi}\psi +i
  \frac{m_p^2}{2\sqrt{2}F}p\bar{\psi}\gamma_{5} \psi - \frac{M_{3}}{2
    \sqrt{2}F} s F^{\mu \nu}_{a} F_{\mu \nu}^{a} +
  \frac{M_{3}}{2\sqrt{2}F} p F^{\mu \nu}_{a} \tilde{F}_{\mu \nu}^{a}
\end{equation}
where $\tilde{F}_{\mu \nu} = \frac{1}{2} \epsilon_{\mu \nu \alpha \beta} F^{\alpha \beta}$ with $\epsilon_{0123} = +1$.

\section{Light gravitino production at the LHC: monojet signature}
\label{sec2}

In this Section we describe main subprocesses which result in jet-plus-missing-energy signature, discuss sgoldstino contribution
and obtain bounds on parameter space of the model using the LHC run-I
data. To our knowledge the latest study in this direction was
performed in~\cite{Maltoni:2015twa} with ATLAS data at
$\sqrt{s}=8$~TeV and 10~fb$^{-1}$. In that study authors obtained
bounds on supersymmetry breaking scale $\sqrt{F}$ in the range
between $850$ and $1300$~GeV depending on the mass scale of superpartners and their
hierarchy. Our task is to extend this analysis and include possibility
of relatively light sgoldstinos. For the present study we make use
of CMS data at $\sqrt{s}=8$~TeV and 19.6~fb$^{-1}$ and perform leading
order (LO) analysis at parton level.

Three main signal subprocesses relevant for our study at LO are 1) gravitino
pair production in association with a parton (quark or gluon); 2)
production of single gravitino with squark or gluino; 3) SUSY QCD pair
production. Here it is assumed that squarks and gluino decay mainly as
$\tilde{q}(\tilde{g})\to q(g) + \psi$.
Corresponding decay widths look as
\begin{equation}
  \label{decay1}
  \Gamma(\tilde{q}(\tilde{g}) \to q(g) + \psi) = \frac{M_{\tilde{q}(3)}^{5}}{16\pi F^2}.
\end{equation}
In what follows we assume that $M_{\tilde{q}}=M_{3}$ and these
decay modes are dominant. One can check that the latter assumption is
actually valid for masses of squarks and gluinos and SUSY breaking
scale around TeV scale.
In general, if sgoldstinos have masses around TeV scale they can decay into a pair of MSSM particles and corresponding decay
widths are governed by relevant soft SUSY breaking parameters~\cite{Gorbunov:2001pd}.
However in the present analysis we consider only two decay channels: decay into a pair of gravitinos
\begin{equation}
  \label{decay2}
  \Gamma(s(p) \to \psi \psi) = \frac{m_{s(p)}^{5}}{32 \pi F^2}
\end{equation}
or a pair of gluons
\begin{equation}
  \label{decay3}
  \Gamma(s(p) \to g g) = \frac{M_3^2 m_{s(p)}^{3}}{4 \pi F^2}.
\end{equation}
The reason is that these decay modes are indeed dominant for a typical hierarchy of soft
SUSY breaking parameters~\footnote{We disregard here possibility of sgoldstino mixing with the Higgs bosons
  which could result in a considerable changes of sgoldstino branching pattern~~\cite{Astapov:2014mea,Demidov:2016gmr}.

}.
Above expressions indicate that at fixed
$M_3$ very heavy sgoldstino decays mostly into gravitino pair, while
lighter sgoldstinos prefer to decay into gluons. For discussions of
sgoldstino branching patterns in more generic cases we refer an
interested reader to~\cite{Gorbunov:2002er,Asano:2017fcp,Astapov:2014mea}.

Let us start with direct gravitino pair production with a single jet
\[
pp \to \psi \psi + {\rm jet}\,.
\]
On Fig.~\ref{diag3} we present examples of relevant Feynman diagrams
contributing to this subprocess.
\begin{figure}[!htb]
  \minipage{0.32\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_grvgrv_1.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \minipage{0.22\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_grvgrv_6.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \minipage{0.22\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_grvgrv_9.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \caption{\label{diag3} Examples of Feynman diagrams contributing to
    direct gravitino pair production with a jet.}
\end{figure}
Here we show a diagram with sgoldstino production, diagram with four-fermion
interaction and with gluino exchange in $t$-channel.
In the heavy sgoldstino limit, the cross section of this process behaves as
$1/F^4$. If sgoldstinos are light they can be produced on-shell
with subsequent decays into a pair of gravitinos.
If sgoldstino contribution is dominant, which happens for very light sgoldstinos, corresponding cross section scales as $1/F^2$.

Next subprocess is associated gravitino production with gluino
or squark (see Fig.~\ref{diag1})
\[
pp \to \tilde{q} \psi, \tilde{g} \psi \to \psi \psi + {\rm jet}\,.
\]
\begin{figure}[!htb]
  \minipage{0.32\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_glgrv_2.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \minipage{0.30\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_sqgrv_1.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \minipage{0.22\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_sqgrv_3.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \caption{\label{diag1} Examples of Feynman diagrams contributing to
    associated gravitino production with gluino or squark.}
\end{figure}
In this case gluino or squark decay into gluino or quark, respectively,
with gravitino and hence we will have two gravitinos and jet in the final
state. The cross section behaves as $1/F^2$ at large values of SUSY
breaking scale.

At last one has squark-squark, gluino-gluino and
squark-gluino production (or SUSY QCD pair production) with their subsequent decays into gravitino
and gluons or quarks (see Fig.~\ref{diag2})
\[
pp \to \tilde{q}\tilde{q},\tilde{q}\tilde{g},\tilde{g}\tilde{g} \to \psi \psi + 2~{\rm jets}\,.
\]
\begin{figure}[!htb]
  \minipage{0.32\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_glgl_1.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \minipage{0.30\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_sqgl_1.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \minipage{0.22\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./diag_sqsq_3.pdf}
  \endminipage\hfill
  \caption{\label{diag2} Examples of Feynman diagrams contributing to
    SUSY QCD pair (squark-squark, gluino-gluino and squark-gluino)
    production.}
\end{figure}
The final state of these subprocesses contains in
fact two jets but the event selection procedure used by ATLAS and CMS
experiments for monojet searches actually admit more than one
jet in a final state. It appears that SUSY QCD pair production gives quite significant
contribution, thus it is important to take these processes into
account especially at large values of SUSY breaking scale where they
are dominant and their cross section does not depend on $\sqrt{F}$.

In the case of TeV scale sgoldstino other types of subprocesses
contributing to jet-plus-missing-energy signature at tree level are
possible. As it follows from \eqref{mdl:lgr5} the interaction
lagrangian contains higher dimensional operators of the following
types
\begin{equation}
  \frac{m_{\rm soft}^2}{F^2}\tilde{q}\partial_\mu\phi\, \bar{q}\gamma^\mu\psi,\;
  \frac{m_{\rm soft}^2}{F^2}D_\mu\tilde{q}\phi\, \bar{q}\gamma^\mu\psi, \; {\rm etc}.
\end{equation}
They would generate subprocesses like $qg\to\tilde{q}\phi\psi$, which
after subsequent decays $\tilde{q}\to q\psi$ and $\phi\to\psi\psi$
would result in missing energy signature. However, we expect that
cross section of these subprocesses
will be suppressed with respect to SUSY QCD  pair production and to
gravitino associated production with squark(gluino) by additional
power of $m_{\rm soft}/F$ suppression \footnote{We remind that self-consistency of the effective theory we consider here implies that inequality $m_{\rm soft}<\sqrt{F}$ must be fulfiled.}. It would also endure phase space suppression due to production of two
heavy particles (sgoldstino and squark). In what follows we neglect
contribution of such subprocesses.

We implemented model~\eqref{mdl:lgr6}--\eqref{mdl:lgr7} into \texttt{MadGraph}~\cite{Alwall:2014hca} and calculated cross section for the processes in question at the leading order applying all the relevant cuts from CMS monojet analysis with run-I data~\cite{Khachatryan:2014rra}.
This CMS study selects events with at most two jets in the final state where the primary jet
($j_{1}$) should have transverse momentum $p_T(j_1) > 110~{\rm GeV}$
and pseudorapidity $\vert \eta (j_1) \vert~<~2.4$. The secondary jet
$(j_2)$ is also allowed if $p_T(j_2) > 30~{\rm GeV}$, $\vert \eta
(j_2) \vert < 4.5$ and difference in azimuthal angle $\vert \Delta
\phi (j_1,j_2) \vert~<~2.5$. For cross check we verify obtained cross sections using \texttt{CalcHEP}~\cite{Belyaev:2012qa}.

In general the model in question contains a lot of free parameters:
\[
M_{3},~M_{\tilde{q}_{L},ij},~M_{\tilde{u}_{R},ij},~M_{\tilde{d}_{R},ij},~A_{d,ij},~A_{u,ij},~\sqrt{F},~m_{s},~m_{p},
\]
were $i,j$ is a family index. We however consider simplified class of models by making several assumptions. Firstly, we assume no mixing in squark sector, which means that $M_{\tilde{q}_{L},ii},~M_{\tilde{u}_{R},ii},~M_{\tilde{d}_{R},ii}$ are physical squark masses. Next, we assume equal masses of gluinos and all squarks
\[
M_{\tilde{q}_{L},ii} = M_{\tilde{u}_{R},ii} = M_{\tilde{d}_{R},ii} \equiv M_{\tilde{q}} = M_{3}.
\]
Equality of gluino and squark masses implies that these particles decay mostly into gravitinos and gluino and quark.
Furthermore, we assume that scalar and pseudoscalar sgoldstinos are degenerate in mass, $m_s=m_p$ and take into account only their decays into pair of gluons and gravitinos which are dominant for TeV-scale gluinos and sgoldstinos. For calculations of cross sections we use CTEQ6L1 PDFs~\cite{Pumplin:2002vw} with relevant
values of renormalization and factorization scales for different
subprocesses contributing to the signal.
Namely, for the process of direct gravitino pair production we take
$\mu_R=\mu_F = \frac{1}{2}(p_T^j + m_T^{\psi\psi})$, where
$m_T^{\psi\psi} = \sqrt{{m^{\psi\psi}}^2 + {p_T^j}^2}$ and
$m^{\psi\psi}$ is invariant mass of pair of gravitinos.
For gluino/squark associated production with gravitino we take
$\mu_{R} = \mu_{F} = 0.5 M_{\tilde{q}} = 0.5 M_{3}$ while for
QCD pair production  $\mu_{R} = \mu_{F} = M_{\tilde{q}} = M_{3}$.
Unstable particles in the intermediate states are taken into
account in narrow width approximation (NWA) which implies that the results are valid when
\[
m_{s} \gg \frac{m_{s(p)}^{5}}{32 \pi F^2} + \frac{M_3^2 m_{s(p)}^{3}}{4 \pi F^2}
\]
Unitarity arguments also constrain the ratio between sgoldstino masses and $\sqrt{F}$. Namely, application of optical theorem to process $\psi \psi \to \psi \psi$ yields the following constraint on sgoldstino masses~\cite{Brignole:1996fn}
\[
m_{s}^{2} + m_{p}^{2} < \sqrt{48\pi} F,
\]
which in our case of degenerate sgoldstino masses can be rewritten as \linebreak $m_{s}(m_{p}) < \sqrt{2 \sqrt{3\pi}} \sqrt{F}\approx 2.5\sqrt{F}$.

CMS analysis considers a number of requirements for the amount of $\bcancel{p_T}^{\rm min}$ in the following set:
\[
\bcancel{p_T^{\rm min}} \in \{ 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500, 550 \}~{\rm GeV}
\]
We checked that for the parameter space we use here the strongest
bound comes from the requirement $\bcancel{p_T^{\rm min}}=450~{\rm GeV}$. In
this case the upper limit on the visible cross section times
acceptance times efficiency for non-SM production of events is about
7.8~fb. We do not take into account detector effects; corresponding
efficiencies are expected to be close to unity for the selected
events, see~\cite{Khachatryan:2014rra}.
In~\cite{Maltoni:2015twa} an additional cut $p_T(j_2)<150$~GeV was
imposed to decrease contribution of SUSY QCD subprocesses. It was
motivated by the fact that cross section of these subprocesses is not
sensitive to $\sqrt{F}$, i.e. to gravitino mass. Still as we will see
below large contribution of SUSY QCD subprocesses to the signal allow
us to exclude some models with relatively light masses of
superpartners within framework of low scale supersymmetry breaking
using missing transverse energy signature. For this reason we do not
introduce any additional cuts in the phase space.

Let us briefly comment on NLO corrections. It is known that for squark and gluino productions they are
large~\cite{Beenakker:1996ch,Beenakker:2010nq,GoncalvesNetto:2012yt}. For
instance, corresponding K-factor reaches value of 3 for gluino-gluino
production~\cite{Beenakker:1996ch,Beenakker:2010nq,GoncalvesNetto:2012yt}. However,
our whole theory which includes gravitinos and sgoldstinos is
effective and nonrenormalizable. To perform self-consistent NLO
analysis one should
have knowledge of microscopic theory behind it. This is beyond
the scope of our work. Given the fact the NLO corrections typically
increase the production cross sections we expect that our bounds will
be even stronger if we include them into our analysis. Also it has
been shown in previous work~\cite{Maltoni:2015twa}  that effects of
showering on jet transverse missing energy distribution are important
but rather mild. We will neglect them here in view of large expected
NLO corrections.

On Fig.~\ref{fig1}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    \includegraphics[width=0.485\columnwidth]{./channels_1500.pdf} &
    \includegraphics[width=0.485\columnwidth]{./channels_2000.pdf}
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{\label{fig1} Cross sections of relevant subprocesses
    contributing to $pp \to \psi\psi + {\rm jet} \to \bcancel{p_{T}} + {\rm jet}$ as functions of supersymmetry breaking scale
    for $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}=1.5$~TeV (left panel) and
    $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}=2$~TeV (right panel). }
\end{figure}
we show cross sections of relevant subprocesses as functions of
supersymmetry breaking scale. On the left panel masses of
superpartners are equal to 1.5~TeV and one can see that for heavy
sgoldstinos the superpartner production and associated production are
the dominant processes. However for sgoldstinos  with masses of
several TeVs corresponding cross sections can be comparable or even
larger. Similar behaviour can be observed on the right panel on the
Figure (where the masses of superpartners are taken to be 2~TeV) but
with different hierarchy between different subprocesses. One can see
that steep slope of gravitino pair production in the heavy sgoldstino
mass limit becomes more flat with light sgoldstino which respects
changing of cross section scaling from $1/F^4$ to $1/F^2$ with the
increase of light sgoldstino contribution.

On Fig.~\ref{fig2}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    \includegraphics[width=0.485\columnwidth]{./channels_sF1500.pdf} &
    \includegraphics[width=0.485\columnwidth]{./channels_sF2000.pdf}
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{\label{fig2} Cross sections of relevant subprocesses
    contributing to $pp \to \psi\psi + {\rm jet} \to \bcancel{p_{T}} + {\rm jet}$ as functions of common mass of superpartners
    for $\sqrt{F}=1.5$~TeV (left panel) and $\sqrt{F}=2$~TeV (right
    panel). }
\end{figure}
we show the same cross sections but as functions of common
mass of superpartners at different values of SUSY breaking
scale. Obviously, production cross section of superpartners decreases
with increase of their masses. On the contrary, direct gravitino pair
production increases and stays constant at large masses of
squarks. Let us note that the contribution of light sgoldstino is
prominent as compared with heavy sgoldstino limit and can increase
cross section of the corresponding subprocess by almost 3 orders of
magnitude.

On Fig.~\ref{fig3}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{./limits_ms.pdf}
  \end{center}
  \caption{\label{fig3} Exclusion plot of $\sqrt{F}$ vs
    $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}$     for different masses of sgoldstino.}
\end{figure}
we show exclusion plots of SUSY breaking scale $\sqrt{F}$ versus
common mass of superpartners $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}$ at fixed values of
sgoldstino masses. One can see that light sgoldstinos can change the
bounds on $\sqrt{F}$ (and as consequently on the gravitino mass $m_{3/2}$)
considerably. Flattening of these lines at large values of SUSY
breaking scale is due to saturation of the total cross section by by
pair production of superpartners, squarks and gluinos, in this
limit. However, one should remember that at very large value of $\sqrt{F}$ squarks/gluinos cease to decay
dominantly into quark/gluino and gravitinos (which is one of the assumptions of the present analysis) and the bounds from the monojet searches should be weakening.
On the opposite end, at large $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}$ the
contour becomes almost vertical because in this parameter region cross section is dominated by
direct gravitino pair production in association with jet. In between
all the subprocesses are of the same relevance. The dashed line here
is the boundary of applicability of perturbation theory for our
model $m_{\rm soft}<\sqrt{F}$. Above this line the theory is in the strong coupling regime.

On Fig.~\ref{fig4}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{./limits_mq.pdf}
    \end{center}
  \caption{\label{fig4}Exclusion plot of $\sqrt{F}$ vs $m_s=m_p$ for
    different scale of masses of superpartners. Above the dashed lines one of the corresponding conditions is violated: unitarity, condition for applicability of NWA. Here we depicted only lines which correspond to $M_{3} = 1.3~{\rm TeV}$ (blue dashed) and $M_{3} = 2.0~{\rm TeV}$ (orange dashed). All other lines which correspond to all intermediate scales lie between them.}
\end{figure}
we present another exclusion plot but in different coordinates. Here
we fix the mass scale of superpartners and vary common masses of
sgoldstinos and SUSY breaking scale. One can see that sgoldstino
contribution is the most important in the range of its mass from 1~TeV
to 2.5~TeV where the bounds on SUSY breaking scale are strengthen by
factor up to about 1.5 in comparison with those obtained in the heavy
sgoldstino limit. This corresponds to a factor of 2 in limit on gravitino mass $m_{3/2}$. Let us note that for $m_s=m_p \gtrsim \sqrt{F}$
narrow width approximation which is used in this work is not applicable~\footnote{Unitarity condition is violated as well in this case.}. But in this limit sgoldstino contribution is suppressed and we do not expect considerable changes in our results.

\section{Direct sgoldstino production and dijet signature}

Light sgoldstinos can be produced directly in $pp$ collisions mainly in
gluon-gluon fusion~\cite{Perazzi:2000ty} and after their decay into
pair of gluons they can be observed as narrow dijet resonances. It is
interesting to compare the bounds from monojet analysis with the bounds
which can be obtained from the the LHC searches of dijet resonance.
For comparison we use both ATLAS~\cite{Aad:2014aqa} and
CMS~\cite{Khachatryan:2015sja} dijet analyses with the data obtained
at $\sqrt{s}=8$~TeV. Although new results of both experiments
at $\sqrt{s}=13$~TeV are already
available~\cite{Aaboud:2017yvp,Sirunyan:2016iap} we still use run-I
data of the  same statistics as we used for monojet analysis in the previous Section.

We use \texttt{MadGraph}~\cite{Alwall:2014hca} to calculate leading order cross
section of the process $pp\to s(p)\to 2~{\rm jets}$ at the partonic level.
To apply ATLAS upper limits on dijet cross section we impose the
following cuts: $\vert \eta(j_{1,2}))\vert < 2.8$, $p_T(j_{1,2}) >
50$~GeV with $\frac{1}{2}\vert \eta(j_1)-\eta(j_2)\vert < 0.6$ and
dijet invariant mass $m_{jj}>250$~GeV. For the case of the CMS results
we use the following set of cuts: $\vert \eta \vert < 2.5$ and scalar
sum of gluon $p_T$, $H_T>150$~GeV with either $H_T>650$~GeV or
$m_{jj}>750$~GeV with $\vert  \eta(j_1)-\eta(j_2) \vert < 1.5$. In both cases additional requirement $m_{jj}>890$~GeV
should be fulfilled. We do not include detector effects and showering in
view of unknown NLO corrections to the cross section.

To find excluded models we've compared calculated cross sections with the
experimental upper 95~$\%~{\rm C.L.}$ limits on the dijet cross sections obtained by
ATLAS~\cite{Aad:2014aqa} and CMS~\cite{Khachatryan:2015sja}.
On Fig.~\ref{compare1}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{./plot_sF_ms_combined_1300.pdf} &
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{./plot_sF_ms_combined_1400.pdf} \\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{./plot_sF_ms_combined_1500.pdf} &
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{./plot_sF_ms_combined_1700.pdf}
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{\label{compare1} Exclusion plots of $\sqrt{F}$ vs
    $m_s=m_p$, comparison of bounds obtained from dijet resonances and
    missing energy searches for different values of
    $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}$: 1.3~TeV (upper left), 1.4~TeV (upper right),
    1.5~TeV (lower left), 1.7~TeV (lower right).}
\end{figure}
we present comparison of exclusion plots of SUSY breaking scale
$\sqrt{F}$ vs sgoldstino mass $m_s=m_p$ for different values of
superpartners masses $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}$ obtained from dijet and
monojet searches. One can see that for relatively small masses of
squarks and gluinos monojet analysis limits this models considerably
stronger than dijets. In this case the monojet cross section due to
contribution of these superpartners. With the increase of masses of
superpartners direct production of sgoldstinos with their subsequent
decays into pair of gluons becomes more constraining. But for heavy
sgoldstinos it weakens again for two reasons: on the one hand direct
production of sgoldstinos becomes suppressed by its mass and on the
other in this case sgoldstinos decay dominantly a into pair of
gravitinos. In this way searches for monojets and dijets are
complimentary to each other.

On Fig.~\ref{compare2}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{./plot_sF_msq_combined_1200.pdf} &
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{./plot_sF_msq_combined_1500.pdf} \\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{./plot_sF_msq_combined_1700.pdf} &
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{./plot_sF_msq_combined_2000.pdf}
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{\label{compare2} Exclusion plots of $\sqrt{F}$ vs
    $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}$, comparison of bounds obtained from dijet resonances and
    jet~$+$~missing energy searches for different values of
    $m_s=m_p$: 1.2~TeV (upper left), 1.5~TeV (upper right),
    1.7~TeV (lower left), 2.0~TeV (lower right)}
\end{figure}
we present similar exclusion plots but in different coordinates:
supersymmetry breaking scale $\sqrt{F}$ vs $M_3=M_{\tilde{q}}$ for
different selected values of sgoldstino masses. For instance, in the
upper left panel sgoldstino mass is equal to 1.2~TeV and here we see
again that at small masses of superpartners the constraints from
jet~$+$~missing transverse energy searches are stronger than from dijets,
while for heavy superpartners it is vice versa. For sgoldstinos with mass more than $\sim 1.7~{\rm TeV}$ the bounds from dijets searchs, being formally more
stringent for large masses of superpartners, actually lie in a strong
coupling regime of the theory $m_{\rm soft}>\sqrt{F}$  and hence in this case constraints from monojet
searches are the most relevant.

\section{Conclusions}
\label{conclusions}

To summarize in this paper we show that in models with low scale
supersymmetry breaking contribution of light sgoldstino to gravitino
pair production can be considerable, although its actual size depends
on the mass of sgoldstino. We calculate leading order cross sections of
the processes contributing to jet and missing energy signal. We obtain bounds on the parameter space of the model within
a simplified set of parameters using results of the CMS run-I searches
for jet and missing transverse energy signature at $\sqrt{s}=8$~TeV.
We found that the bounds on gravitino mass in the case of light
sgoldstinos can be stronger by factor of 2 as compared to those in the
heavy sgoldstino limit. We compare the bounds from monojet searches
with those from dijets from ATLAS and CMS data of the same collision energy and
statistics.  We found them complimentary in different regions of parameter space. Our final results are presented in Figs.~\ref{compare1} and~\ref{compare2}.
 For instance, for common mass of superpartners 1.5~TeV the bound on supersymmetry breaking scale varies from
  about 1.35~TeV for heavy sgoldstinos to about 2~TeV for sgoldstinos with mass about 1.5~TeV. The respective bounds on $m_{3/2}$ in this case are
$4.3\cdot 10^{-13}$~eV and $9.5\cdot 10^{-13}$~eV. It would be interesting to probe this  scenario with new data at 13 TeV.

\paragraph*{Acknowledgments}
We thank Dmitry Gorbunov and Konstantin Astapov for valuable discussions. We are grateful to Georg Weiglein for useful comments on the manuscript.
We are also grateful to Alexander Pukhov for his help with {\tt CalcHEP} code~\cite{Belyaev:2012qa} which allowed to cross-check results
obtained in this paper. The work was supported by the RSCF grant 14-22-00161. The numerical part of the work was performed on
Calculational Cluster of the Theory Division of INR RAS.

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April 30, 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of Possum Bourne's death, after the Australian, New Zealand, and Asia-Pacific Rally Champion's horrific accident 12 days earlier. This is Part 4 in our tribute to Possum.
Read more of our Possum Bourne tribute HERE.
I have to admit that I never got to ride with Possum Bourne. A pity, really. I'm sure that the offer would have been there, but the opportunity never seemed to be just right. And having missed out on a ride with the Kiwi, one of life's little pleasures has passed me by.
I don't know that I was particuarly keen to get into the spare seat in Possum's rally car. Not the world's best passenger, I never pressed the issue of riding with one of the greatest "natural" rally drivers that the two islands in the Tasman have ever seen.
And it's to my great regret that I can now never claim to have been privileged to watch him at work on a special stage from inside his car. And now Possum is gone. For ever. And he will never be replaced.
Like many others, I was shocked when the news of his accident on the Race to the Sky course in New Zealand's South Island filtered through. But Possum was always going to recover, we knew that. Tenacious, gutsy, a fighter who always kicked back when he was in a corner, Possum Bourne was renowned for turning a bad scenario into a good one.
As we were to hear later on, one of his favourite one-liners was "You don't realise how good the good times were until you experience a bad time." This summed up Possum perfectly.
But he didn't get better, and he passed from this world on Wednesday, April 30, going to that great Special Stage in the sky. How he will be missed.
It's often said that we never realise just how well-respected we are until we're gone, and this was never more true than in Possum's case. Nearly 9000 email messages were sent to his website, thousands of people mourned his death on both sides of the Tasman, hundreds of thousands of words written about him by the media, visual tributes, floral tributes, and so it goes on. Tragic.
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Stuart Bowes captured this brilliant shot of Possum Bourne at the Rally of Canberra in 1992.
Peter "Possum" Bourne was a household name in Australia as well as in New Zealand. Not too many of our local Aussies can lay claim to that.
He was apparently a lousy mechanic, a devoted husband and father, a great organiser, a terrific mate and an exceptional driver, a considerable amount of talent all rolled into one.
Editor Peter Whitten wrote a piece in ARN recently about the "Possum" phenomenen which tried to explain the following that this laconic Kiwi generated.
He remarked that particularly, but not only, in New Zealand, spectators on an event where Possum was entered, would wait until the familiar blue Subaru passed a spectator point and then move on en-mass to the next point to see him once again. He had that kind of following. There was only ever one Kiwi worth waiting around to watch.
What will I remember about Peter Raymond George (Possum) Bourne?
I'll remember that swaggering, bandy-legged walk that typified him as he sauntered up to talk to you or to the TV cameras that seemed to be an integral part of the Possum publicity machine. I'll remember that quizzical frown that so often crossed his forehead as he wrestled with a car problem or searched for an answer to a particularly curly question.
I'll remember the glasses he always wore and wonder how much difference they made to his driving ability. I'll also remember that jet black moustache that he wore for as long as most of us can remember, before shaving it off to reveal a "new Possum" a couple of years ago.
And I'll remember the hordes of fans who would hang around for a glimpse, a word, an autograph or a handshake at his every outing.
But more than anything else, I'll remember that blue Subaru being flung through the bush within an inch of its life, almost always sideways, almost always flat out and being driven in a manner which few others anywhere, period, could do.
Possum Bourne is gone, but the Possum Bourne legend lives on. He can never be replaced, but he will be fondly remembered for not only who he was, but for what he did for rallying in New Zealand and Australia.
We all mourn his passing, none more so than his wife and family.
Although he's gone from our midst, let's not mourn that he's been tragically taken from us, but let's give thanks that he has had such a huge impact on all our lives and done so much for rallying.
Let's also spare a thought for Mike Barltrop, the guy who collided with Possum, and who must now be going through hell as he recuperates from his injuries.
Aren't we all just that little bit better for having had Possum Bourne in our midst, even for such a relatively-short time? Isn't rallying so much better because of Possum's involvement?
I'll remember him for the things he contributed to rallying and the opportunities I've had of seeing him in action. But over and above these memories, always etched on my mind will be the memory of seeing him in action in the forest – totally committed, totally sideways and, I guess, totally Possum.


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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Tower of Babel
Pieter Bruegel the Elder:
(Dutch pronunciation:c. 1525 - 9 September 1569) was a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is sometimes referred to as "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Bruegel" is being referred to. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as Bruegel. There are records that he was born in Breda, Netherlands, but it is uncertain whether the Dutch town of Breda or the Belgian town of Bree, called Breda in Latin, is meant. He was an apprentice of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, whose daughter Mayken he later married. He spent some time in France and Italy, and then went to Antwerp, where in 1551 he was accepted as a master in the painter's guild. He traveled to Italy soon after, and then returned to Antwerp before settling in Brussels permanently 10 years later. He received the nickname 'Peasant Bruegel' or 'Bruegel the Peasant' for his alleged practice of dressing up like a peasant in order to mingle at weddings and other celebrations, thereby gaining inspiration and authentic details for his genre paintings. He died in Brussels on 9 September 1569 and was buried in the Kapellekerk. He was the father of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Both became painters, but as they were very young children when their father died, it is believed neither received any training from him.
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| Oil painting in Sweden | Antoine Le Nain (1588-1648), Louis Le Nain (c. 1593-1648) or Mathieu Le Nain (1607-1677) | Alfaro, Juan de-La Asuncion de la Virgen-186 cm x 145 cm | Jordaens, Jacob-Meleagro y Atalanta-152,3 cm x 240,5 cm | Joseph-Marie Vien -- Young Greek girls bestowing garlands on sleeping Amor | Patch of grass 1887 | Francois-Hubert Drouais-Portrait of Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld | Camille Pissarro-Ludas girls | James Tissot-Seaside | Alfred Sisley-Brucke von Moret in der Morgensonne | Titian-Salome con la testa del Battista |


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