Search for supersymmetry in events containing a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum in √s = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
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Taylor, Frank E.
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July 2015
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The European Physical Journal C
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Springer-Verlag
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Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, M. Abolins, O. S. AbouZeid, et al. “Search for Supersymmetry in Events Containing a Same-Flavour Opposite-Sign Dilepton Pair, Jets, and Large Missing Transverse Momentum in √s = 8 TeV Pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector.” The European Physical Journal C 75, no. 7 (July 2015). © 2015 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
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Abstract
Two searches for supersymmetric particles in final states containing a same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair, jets and large missing transverse momentum are presented. The proton–proton collision data used in these searches were collected at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 8 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb[superscript −1]. Two leptonic production mechanisms are considered: decays of squarks and gluinos with Z bosons in the final state, resulting in a peak in the dilepton invariant mass distribution around the Z-boson mass; and decays of neutralinos (e.g. [~ over χ][0 over 2] → ℓ[superscript +]ℓ[superscript −][~ over χ][0 over 1]), resulting in a kinematic endpoint in the dilepton invariant mass distribution. For the former, an excess of events above the expected Standard Model background is observed, with a significance of three standard deviations. In the latter case, the data are well-described by the expected Standard Model background. The results from each channel are interpreted in the context of several supersymmetric models involving the production of squarks and gluinos.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3518-2
