Search for direct production of electroweakinos in final states with one lepton, missing transverse momentum and a Higgs boson decaying into two b-jets in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abbott, DC; Abud, AA; Abeling, K; Abhayasinghe, DK; Abidi, SH; AbouZeid, OS; Abraham, NL; Abramowicz, H; ...Date
2020-08-01Source Title
European Physical Journal C: Particles and FieldsPublisher
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Urquijo, Phillip; Barberio, Luigia; Kubota, Takashi; Taylor, Geoffrey; Milesi, Marco; Ungaro, Francesca Consiglia; Shojaii, Seyed RuhollahAffiliation
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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. C., Abud, A. A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D. K., Abidi, S. H., AbouZeid, O. S., Abraham, N. L., Abramowicz, H., Abulaiti, Y., Abreu, H., Acharya, B. S., Achkar, B., Adachi, S., Adam, L., Bourdarios, C. A., Adamczyk, L., Adamek, L. ,... Zwalinski, L. (2020). Search for direct production of electroweakinos in final states with one lepton, missing transverse momentum and a Higgs boson decaying into two b-jets in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 80 (8), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8050-3.Access Status
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<jats:p>The results of a search for electroweakino pair production <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$pp \rightarrow \tilde{\chi }^\pm _1 \tilde{\chi }^0_2$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>→</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo></mml:msubsup><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> in which the chargino (<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\tilde{\chi }^\pm _1$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>) decays into a <jats:italic>W</jats:italic> boson and the lightest neutralino (<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\tilde{\chi }^0_1$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>), while the heavier neutralino (<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\tilde{\chi }^0_2$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>) decays into the Standard Model 125 GeV Higgs boson and a second <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\tilde{\chi }^0_1$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> are presented. The signal selection requires a pair of <jats:italic>b</jats:italic>-tagged jets consistent with those from a Higgs boson decay, and either an electron or a muon from the <jats:italic>W</jats:italic> boson decay, together with missing transverse momentum from the corresponding neutrino and the stable neutralinos. The analysis is based on data corresponding to 139 <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\mathrm {fb}^{-1}$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>fb</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> of <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\sqrt{s}=13$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>13</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> TeV <jats:italic>pp</jats:italic> collisions provided by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector. No statistically significant evidence of an excess of events above the Standard Model expectation is found. Limits are set on the direct production of the electroweakinos in simplified models, assuming pure wino cross-sections. Masses of <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\tilde{\chi }^{\pm }_{1}/\tilde{\chi }^{0}_{2}$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>/</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> up to 740 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for a massless <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\tilde{\chi }^{0}_{1}$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mover><mml:mi>χ</mml:mi><mml:mo>~</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>.</jats:p>
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