Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two leptons in root s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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Aaboud, M; Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdinov, O; Abeloos, B; Abidi, SH; AbouZeid, OS; Abraham, NL; Abramowicz, H; Abreu, H; ...Date
2017-12-21Source Title
European Physical Journal C: Particles and FieldsPublisher
SPRINGERUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Urquijo, Phillip; Taylor, Geoffrey; Nuti, Francesco; Barberio, Luigia; Brennan, Amelia; Kubota, Takashi; Rados, Pere; Scutti, Federico; Ungaro, Francesca Consiglia; Milesi, Marco; ...Affiliation
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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., AbouZeid, O. S., Abraham, N. L., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A. ,... Zwalinski, L. (2017). Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two leptons in root s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 77 (12), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5445-x.Access Status
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The results of a search for direct pair production of top squarks in events with two opposite-charge leptons (electrons or muons) are reported, using
36.1
fb
-
1
of integrated luminosity from proton-proton collisions at
s
=
13
TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. To cover a range of mass differences between the top squark
t
~
and lighter supersymmetric particles, four possible decay modes of the top squark are targeted with dedicated selections: the decay
t
~
→
b
χ
~
1
±
into a b-quark and the lightest chargino with
χ
~
1
±
→
W
χ
~
1
0
, the decay
t
~
→
t
χ
~
1
0
into an on-shell top quark and the lightest neutralino, the three-body decay
t
~
→
b
W
χ
~
1
0
and the four-body decay
t
~
→
b
ℓ
ν
χ
~
1
0
. No significant excess of events is observed above the Standard Model background for any selection, and limits on top squarks are set as a function of the
t
~
and
χ
~
1
0
masses. The results exclude at 95% confidence level
t
~
masses up to about 720 GeV, extending the exclusion region of supersymmetric parameter space covered by previous searches.
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