skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Search for supersymmetry in events with a lepton, a photon, and large missing transverse energy in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1]
  1. Yerevan Physics Inst. (Armenia)

A search is performed for an excess of events, over the standard model expectations, with a photon, a lepton, and large missing transverse energy in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. Such events are expected in many new physics models, in particular a supersymmetric theory that is broken via a gauge-mediated mechanism, when the lightest charged and neutral gauginos are mass degenerate. The data sample used in this search corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35 inverse picobarns collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. No evidence of such an excess above the standard model backgrounds, dominated by W-gamma production, is found. The results are presented as 95% confidence level upper limits on the cross section for a benchmark gauge-mediated scenario, and are then converted into exclusion limits on the squark, gluino, and wino masses.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
CMS Collaboration
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1155745
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-11-736-CMS; CERN-PH-EP-2011-058; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1105.3152
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2011, Issue 6; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English