Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Taylor, Frank E.
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January 2013
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Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Aad, G., T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, A.A. Abdelalim, O. Abdinov, et al. “Search for Supersymmetry in Events with Photons, Bottom Quarks, and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton–proton Collisions at a Centre-of-Mass Energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.” Physics Letters B 719, no. 4–5 (February 2013): 261–279. © 2013 CERN
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Abstract
A search has been performed for the experimental signature of an isolated photon with high transverse momentum, at least one jet identified as originating from a bottom quark, and high missing transverse momentum. Such a final state may originate from supersymmetric models with gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking in events in which one of a pair of higgsino-like neutralinos decays into a photon and a gravitino while the other decays into a Higgs boson and a gravitino. The search is performed using the full dataset of 7 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb[superscript -1]. A total of 7 candidate events are observed while 7.5±2.2 events are expected from the Standard Model background. The results of the search are interpreted in the context of general gauge mediation to exclude certain regions of a benchmark plane for higgsino-like neutralino production.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.041
