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Search for top-squark pairs decaying into Higgs or Z bosons in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Bergauer, T.; Dragicevic, M.; Erö, J.; Fabjan, C.; Friedl, M.; Frühwirth, R.; Ghete, V. M.; Hartl, C.; Hörmann, N.; Hrubec, J.; Jeitler, M.; Kiesenhofer, W.; Knünz, V.; Krammer, M.; Krätschmer, I.; ... mehr

Abstract:

A search for supersymmetry through the direct pair production of top squarks, with Higgs (H) or Z bosons in the decay chain, is performed using a data sample of proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC. The sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb −1 . The search is performed using a selection of events containing leptons and bottom-quark jets. No evidence for a significant excess of events over the standard model background prediction is observed. The results are interpreted in the context of simplified supersymmetric models with pair production of a heavier top-squark mass eigenstate t˜2 decaying to a lighter top-squark mass eigenstate t˜1 via either t˜2→Ht˜1 or t˜2→Zt˜1 , followed in both cases by t˜1→tχ˜10 , where χ˜10 is an undetected, stable, lightest supersymmetric particle. The interpretation is performed in the region where the mass difference between the t˜1 and χ˜10 states is approximately equal to the top-quark mass ( mt˜1−mχ˜10≃mt ), which is not probed by searches for direct t˜1 squark pair production. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000044620
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.07.053
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Fakultät für Physik – Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP)
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Publikationsjahr 2014
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 0370-2693
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-446205
KITopen-ID: 1000044620
Erschienen in Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Verlag North-Holland Publishing
Band 736
Seiten 371-397
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