Searches for Electroweak Neutralino and Chargino Production in Channels with Higgs, Z, and W Bosons in pp Collisions at 8 TeV
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Khachatryan, V.
Sirunyan, A. M.
Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Bergauer, T.
Dragicevic, M.
Erö, J.
Fabjan, C.
Friedl, M.
Frühwirth, R.
Date Issued
November 2014
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Khachatryan, V., A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, J. Ero, et al. “Searches for Electroweak Neutralino and Chargino Production in Channels with Higgs, Z, and W Bosons in pp Collisions at 8 TeV.” Phys. Rev. D 90, no. 9 (November 2014). © 2014 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration
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Abstract
Searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) are presented based on the electroweak pair production of neutralinos and charginos, leading to decay channels with Higgs, Z, and W bosons and undetected lightest SUSY particles (LSPs). The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of about 19.5 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC. The main emphasis is neutralino pair production in which each neutralino decays either to a Higgs boson (h) and an LSP or to a Z boson and an LSP, leading to hh, hZ, and ZZ states with missing transverse energy (E[miss over T]). A second aspect is chargino-neutralino pair production, leading to hW states with E[miss over T]. The decays of a Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair, to a photon pair, and to final states with leptons are considered in conjunction with hadronic and leptonic decay modes of the Z and W bosons. No evidence is found for supersymmetric particles, and 95% confidence level upper limits are evaluated for the respective pair production cross sections and for neutralino and chargino mass values.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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