Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Higgs or Z boson, and missing transverse momentum in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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dc.contributor.authorAaboud, M.
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Justin
dc.contributor.authorChiu, Y. H.
dc.contributor.authorElliot, Alison A.
dc.contributor.authorFincke-Keeler, J.
dc.contributor.authorHamano, Kenji
dc.contributor.authorHill, Ewan Chin
dc.contributor.authorKeeler, Richard
dc.contributor.authorKowalewski, Robert
dc.contributor.authorKuwertz, E. S.
dc.contributor.authorKwan, Tony
dc.contributor.authorLeBlanc, Matthew Edgar
dc.contributor.authorLefebvre, Michel
dc.contributor.authorMcPherson, Robert A.
dc.contributor.authorSeuster, Rolf
dc.contributor.authorSobie, Randall J.
dc.contributor.authorTrovatelli, M.
dc.contributor.authorVenturi, M.
dc.contributor.authorATLAS Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-09T17:12:00Z
dc.date.available2020-03-09T17:12:00Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractA search for direct top squark pair production resulting in events with either a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair with invariant mass compatible with a Z boson or a pair of jets compatible with a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson (h) is presented. Requirements on the missing transverse momentum, together with additional selections on leptons, jets, jets identified as originating from b-quarks are imposed to target the other decay products of the top squark pair. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data at s√=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015–2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. No excess is observed in the data with respect to the SM predictions. The results are interpreted in two sets of models. In the first set, direct production of pairs of lighter top squarks (t~1) with long decay chains involving Z or Higgs bosons is considered. The second set includes direct pair production of the heavier top squark pairs (t~2) decaying via t~2→Zt~1 or t~2→ht~1. The results exclude at 95% confidence level t~2 and t~1 masses up to about 800 GeV, extending the exclusion region of supersymmetric parameter space covered by previous LHC searches.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe 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-DSM/IRFU, France; SRNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE 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, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Region Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdinov, O.; Abeloos, B.; Abidi, S. H.; … & Zwalinski, L. (2017). Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Higgs or Z boson, and missing transverse momentum in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(8), article 6. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2017)006en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11614
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of High Energy Physicsen_US
dc.subjectBeyond Standard Model
dc.subjectHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
dc.subjectHiggs physics
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomy
dc.titleSearch for direct top squark pair production in events with a Higgs or Z boson, and missing transverse momentum in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detectoren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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