Search for Top Squarks Decaying via Four-Body or Chargino-Mediated Modes in Single-Lepton Final States in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bauer, Gerry P
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Date Issued
September 2018
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Nature
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Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for Top Squarks Decaying via Four-Body or Chargino-Mediated Modes in Single-Lepton Final States in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, 9 (September 2018): 65 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
A search for the pair production of the lightest supersymmetric partner of the top quark (t~[subscript 1]) is presented. The search focuses on a compressed scenario where the mass difference between the top squark and the lightest supersymmetric particle, often considered to be the lightest neutralino (χ~[superscript 0][subscript 1]), is smaller than the mass of the W boson. The proton-proton collision data were recorded by the CMS experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb[superscript −1]. In this search, two decay modes of the top squark are considered: a four-body decay into a bottom quark, two additional fermions, and a χ~[superscript 0][subscript 1]; and a decay via an intermediate chargino. Events are selected using the presence of a high-momentum jet, significant missing transverse momentum, and a low transverse momentum electron or muon. Two analysis techniques are used, targeting different decay modes of the t~[subscript 1]: a sequential selection and a multivariate technique. No evidence for the production of top squarks is found, and mass limits at 95% confidence level are set that reach up to 560 GeV, depending on the m(t~[subscript 1])−m(χ~[superscript 0][subscript 1]) mass difference and the decay mode. Keywords: Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Supersymmetry
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)065
