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- Search for top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in $\sqrt{s}=$ 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector doi link

Auteur(s): Aad G., Albrand S., Brown J., Collot J., Crépé-Renaudin S., Dechenaux B., Delsart P.A., Gabaldon C., Genest M.H., Hostachy J.Y., Ledroit-Guillon F., Lleres A., Lucotte A., Malek F., Monini C., Stark J., Trocmé B., Wu M., Rahal G., Abdel Khalek S., Bassalat A., Becot C., Binet S., Bourdarios C., Charfeddine D., De Vivie De Regie J.B., Duflot L., Escalier M., Fayard L., Ughetto M.

(Article) Publié: Journal Of High Energy Physics, vol. 2014 p.118 (2014)
Texte intégral en Openaccess : arXiv


Ref Arxiv: 1407.0583
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2014)118
WoS: 000347908700001
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Résumé:

The results of a search for top squark (stop) pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum are reported. The analysis is performed with proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=$ 8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20 fb$^{-1}$. The lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is taken to be the lightest neutralino which only interacts weakly and is assumed to be stable. The stop decay scenarios considered are those to a top quark and the LSP as well as to a bottom quark and the lightest chargino, where the chargino decays to the LSP by emitting a W boson. A wide range of scenarios with different mass splittings between the stop, the lightest neutralino and the lightest chargino are considered, including cases where the W bosons or the top quarks are off-shell. Decay scenarios involving the heavier charginos and neutralinos are addressed using a set of phenomenological models of supersymmetry. No significant excess over the Standard Model prediction is observed. A stop with a mass between 210 and 640 GeV decaying directly to a top quark and a massless LSP is excluded at 95% confidence level, and in models where the mass of the lightest chargino is twice that of the LSP, stops are excluded at 95% confidence level up to a mass of 500 GeV for an LSP mass in the range of 100 to 150 GeV. Stringent exclusion limits are also derived for all other considered stop decay scenarios, and generic upper limits are set on the visible cross-section for processes beyond the Standard Model.



Commentaires: See paper for full list of authors - 71 pages plus author list + cover page (94 pages total), 25 figures, 20 tables, submitted to JHEP, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2013-15/