Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum and b-jets

Results are presented of a search for supersymmetric particles in events with large missing transverse momentum and at least one heavy flavour jet candidate in √s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb[superscript −1] recorded by the ATL...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Frank E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95934
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7586-7253
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Summary:Results are presented of a search for supersymmetric particles in events with large missing transverse momentum and at least one heavy flavour jet candidate in √s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb[superscript −1] recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, no significant excess is observed with respect to the prediction for Standard Model processes. For R-parity conserving models in which sbottoms (stops) are the only squarks to appear in the gluino decay cascade, gluino masses below 590 GeV (520 GeV) are excluded at the 95% C.L. The results are also interpreted in an MSUGRA/CMSSM supersymmetry breaking scenario with tanβ=40 and in an SO(10) model framework.