Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV pp collisions

Searches are presented for direct production of top or bottom squark pairs in proton–proton collisions at the CERN LHC. Two searches, based on complementary techniques, are performed in all-jet final states that are characterized by a significant imbalance in transverse momentum. An additional searc...

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Main Authors: CMS Collaboration, Abercrombie, Daniel Robert, Allen, Brandon Leigh, Apyan, Aram, Azzolini, Virginia, Barbieri, Richard Alexander, Baty, Austin Alan, Bi, Ran, Bierwagen, Katharina, Brandt, Stephanie Akemi, Busza, Wit, Cali, Ivan Amos, D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria, Demiragli, Zeynep, Di Matteo, Leonardo, Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Hsu, Dylan George, Iiyama, Yutaro, Innocenti, Gian Michele, Klute, Markus, Kovalskyi, Dmytro, Krajczar, Krisztian F., Lai, Yue Shi, Lee, Yen-Jie, Levin, Amy Elizabeth, Luckey Jr, P David, Maier, Benedikt, Marini, Andrea Carlo, McGinn, Christopher Francis, Mironov, Camelia Maria, Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan, Niu, Xinmei, Paus, Christoph M. E., Roland, Christof E, Roland, Gunther M, Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry, Stephans, George S. F., Tatar, Kaya, Varma, Mukund Madhav, Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru, Veverka, Jan, Wang, Jing, Wang, Ta-Wei, Wyslouch, Boleslaw, Yang, Ming
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118946
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author CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Apyan, Aram
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bi, Ran
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria
Demiragli, Zeynep
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Hsu, Dylan George
Iiyama, Yutaro
Innocenti, Gian Michele
Klute, Markus
Kovalskyi, Dmytro
Krajczar, Krisztian F.
Lai, Yue Shi
Lee, Yen-Jie
Levin, Amy Elizabeth
Luckey Jr, P David
Maier, Benedikt
Marini, Andrea Carlo
McGinn, Christopher Francis
Mironov, Camelia Maria
Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan
Niu, Xinmei
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Roland, Christof E
Roland, Gunther M
Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry
Stephans, George S. F.
Tatar, Kaya
Varma, Mukund Madhav
Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru
Veverka, Jan
Wang, Jing
Wang, Ta-Wei
Wyslouch, Boleslaw
Yang, Ming
author2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Baty, Austin Alan
Bi, Ran
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Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Hsu, Dylan George
Iiyama, Yutaro
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Klute, Markus
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Lee, Yen-Jie
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Luckey Jr, P David
Maier, Benedikt
Marini, Andrea Carlo
McGinn, Christopher Francis
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Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan
Niu, Xinmei
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Roland, Christof E
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Varma, Mukund Madhav
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description Searches are presented for direct production of top or bottom squark pairs in proton–proton collisions at the CERN LHC. Two searches, based on complementary techniques, are performed in all-jet final states that are characterized by a significant imbalance in transverse momentum. An additional search requires the presence of a charged lepton isolated from other activity in the event. The data were collected in 2015 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV with the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.3fb⁻¹. No statistically significant excess of events is found beyond the expected contribution from standard model processes. Exclusion limits are set in the context of simplified models of top or bottom squark pair production. Models with top and bottom squark masses up to 830 and 890GeV, respectively, are probed for light neutralinos. For models with top squark masses of 675GeV, neutralino masses up to 260GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1189462022-10-01T23:38:57Z Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV pp collisions CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming Searches are presented for direct production of top or bottom squark pairs in proton–proton collisions at the CERN LHC. Two searches, based on complementary techniques, are performed in all-jet final states that are characterized by a significant imbalance in transverse momentum. An additional search requires the presence of a charged lepton isolated from other activity in the event. The data were collected in 2015 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV with the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.3fb⁻¹. No statistically significant excess of events is found beyond the expected contribution from standard model processes. Exclusion limits are set in the context of simplified models of top or bottom squark pair production. Models with top and bottom squark masses up to 830 and 890GeV, respectively, are probed for light neutralinos. For models with top squark masses of 675GeV, neutralino masses up to 260GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level. 2018-11-07T19:29:49Z 2018-11-07T19:29:49Z 2017-05 2016-12 2018-10-11T17:13:44Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1434-6044 1434-6052 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118946 Sirunyan, A. M., A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, E. Asilar, T. Bergauer, J. Brandstetter, et al. “Searches for Pair Production of Third-Generation Squarks in √s = 13 TeV Pp Collisions.” The European Physical Journal C 77 (May 2017): 327 © 2017 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2622-8295 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7904 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-1747 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7312-5854 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-5622 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8261-8346 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2850-9007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/EPJC/S10052-017-4853-2 European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Berlin Heidelberg Springer
spellingShingle CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Apyan, Aram
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bi, Ran
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria
Demiragli, Zeynep
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Hsu, Dylan George
Iiyama, Yutaro
Innocenti, Gian Michele
Klute, Markus
Kovalskyi, Dmytro
Krajczar, Krisztian F.
Lai, Yue Shi
Lee, Yen-Jie
Levin, Amy Elizabeth
Luckey Jr, P David
Maier, Benedikt
Marini, Andrea Carlo
McGinn, Christopher Francis
Mironov, Camelia Maria
Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan
Niu, Xinmei
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Roland, Christof E
Roland, Gunther M
Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry
Stephans, George S. F.
Tatar, Kaya
Varma, Mukund Madhav
Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru
Veverka, Jan
Wang, Jing
Wang, Ta-Wei
Wyslouch, Boleslaw
Yang, Ming
Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV pp collisions
title Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV pp collisions
title_full Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV pp collisions
title_fullStr Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV pp collisions
title_full_unstemmed Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV pp collisions
title_short Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV pp collisions
title_sort searches for pair production of third generation squarks in sqrt s 13 s 13 text tev tev pp collisions
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