Search for bottom-squark pair production with the ATLAS detector in final states containing Higgs bosons, b-jets and missing transverse momentum

dc.contributor.authorAad, G.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, B.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, D.C.
dc.contributor.authorAbdinov, O.
dc.contributor.authorAbed Abud, A.
dc.contributor.authorAbeling, K.
dc.contributor.authorAbhayasinghe, D.K.
dc.contributor.authorAbidi, S.H.
dc.contributor.authorAbouZeid, O.S.
dc.contributor.authorAbraham, N.L.
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Justin
dc.contributor.authorAnelli, Christopher R.
dc.contributor.authorChiu, Y. H.
dc.contributor.authorGhasemi Bostanabad, M.
dc.contributor.authorHamano, Kenji
dc.contributor.authorHill, Ewan Chin
dc.contributor.authorKay, E. F.
dc.contributor.authorKeeler, Richard
dc.contributor.authorKowalewski, Robert
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-26T19:22:36Z
dc.date.available2020-10-26T19:22:36Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe result of a search for the pair production of the lightest supersymmetric partner of the bottom quark (b~1) using 139 fb−1 of proton-proton data collected at s√ = 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector is reported. In the supersymmetric scenarios considered both of the bottom-squarks decay into a b-quark and the second-lightest neutralino, b~1→b+χ~02. Each χ~02 is assumed to subsequently decay with 100% branching ratio into a Higgs boson (h) like the one in the Standard Model and the lightest neutralino: χ~02→h+χ~01. The χ~01 is assumed to be the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) and is stable. Two signal mass configurations are targeted: the first has a constant LSP mass of 60 GeV; and the second has a constant mass difference between the χ~02 and χ~01 of 130 GeV. The final states considered contain no charged leptons, three or more b-jets, and large missing transverse momentum. No significant excess of events over the Standard Model background expectation is observed in any of the signal regions considered. Limits at the 95% confidence level are placed in the supersymmetric models considered, and bottom-squarks with mass up to 1.5 TeV are excluded.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, CRC and Compute Canada, Canada; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, and Marie Sk lodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d' Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co- nanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and GIF, Israel; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (U.K.) and BNL (U.S.A.), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in ref.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. C., Abdinbov, O., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., … Zwalinksi, L. (2019). Search for bottom-squark pair production with the ATLAS detector in final states containing Higgs bosons, b-jets and missing transverse momentum. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(12). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2019)060en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2019)060
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12259
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of High Energy Physicsen_US
dc.subjectHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Supersymmetry
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomy
dc.titleSearch for bottom-squark pair production with the ATLAS detector in final states containing Higgs bosons, b-jets and missing transverse momentumen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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