Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at sqrts = 8TeV with the ATLAS detector

Agustoni, Marco; Beck, Hans Peter; Cervelli, Alberto; Ereditato, Antonio; Gallo, Valentina; Haug, Sigve; Kruker, Tobias; Marti, Lukas; Meloni, Federico; Schneider, Basil; Sciacca, Gianfranco; Stramaglia, Maria; Stucci, Stefania Antonia; Weber, Michael (2014). Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at sqrts = 8TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(6) Springer 10.1007/JHEP06(2014)124

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A search is presented for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons (electrons or muons) of opposite charge using 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at ps = 8TeV, collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. No excess over the Standard Model expectation is found. The results are interpreted under the separate assumptions (i) that the top squark decays to a b-quark in addition to an on-shell chargino whose decay occurs via a real or virtual W boson, or (ii) that the top squark decays to a t-quark and the lightest neutralino. A top squark with a mass between 150 GeV and 445 GeV decaying to a b-quark and an on-shell chargino is excluded at 95%
confidence level for a top squark mass equal to the chargino mass plus 10 GeV, in the case
of a 1 GeV lightest neutralino. Top squarks with masses between 215 (90) GeV and 530
(170) GeV decaying to an on-shell (off-shell) t-quark and a neutralino are excluded at 95%
confidence level for a 1 GeV neutralino.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Agustoni, Marco, Beck, Hans Peter, Cervelli, Alberto, Ereditato, Antonio, Gallo, Valentina, Haug, Sigve, Kruker, Tobias, Marti, Lukas, Meloni, Federico, Schneider, Basil, Sciacca, Gianfranco, Stramaglia, Maria Elena, Stucci, Stefania, Weber, Michele

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1029-8479

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Jan Dirk Brinksma

Date Deposited:

09 Jun 2015 13:47

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:26

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/JHEP06(2014)124

Additional Information:

Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt.

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.68717

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/68717

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