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Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Z boson, b-jets and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s)=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
| Resumo: | A search is presented for direct top squark pair production using events with at least two leptons including a same-flavour opposite-sign pair with invariant mass consistent with the Z boson mass, jets tagged as originating from b -quarks and missing transverse momentum. The analysis is performed with proton–proton collision data at s√=8\ TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb −1 . No excess beyond the Standard Model expectation is observed. Interpretations of the results are provided in models based on the direct pair production of the heavier top squark state ( t~2 ) followed by the decay to the lighter top squark state ( t~1 ) via t~2→Zt~1 , and for t~1 pair production in natural gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenarios where the neutralino ( χ~01 ) is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and decays producing a Z boson and a gravitino ( G~ ) via the χ~01→ZG~ process. |
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| Autores principais: | Onofre, A. |
| Outros Autores: | Castro, Nuno Filipe Silva Fernandes; ATLAS Collaboration |
| Assunto: | Ciências Naturais::Ciências Físicas |
| Ano: | 2014 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | A search is presented for direct top squark pair production using events with at least two leptons including a same-flavour opposite-sign pair with invariant mass consistent with the Z boson mass, jets tagged as originating from b -quarks and missing transverse momentum. The analysis is performed with proton–proton collision data at s√=8\ TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb −1 . No excess beyond the Standard Model expectation is observed. Interpretations of the results are provided in models based on the direct pair production of the heavier top squark state ( t~2 ) followed by the decay to the lighter top squark state ( t~1 ) via t~2→Zt~1 , and for t~1 pair production in natural gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenarios where the neutralino ( χ~01 ) is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and decays producing a Z boson and a gravitino ( G~ ) via the χ~01→ZG~ process. |
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