Searches for third-generation squark production in fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV

Khachatryan, Vardan

doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2015)116

Title: Searches for third-generation squark production in fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} = 8$$ TeV

Journal Article · Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2015)116· OSTI ID:1221286

Khachatryan, Vardan ^[1]

Yerevan Physics Inst. (YerPhI), Yerevan (Armenia). et al.

We searched for third-generation squarks in fully hadronic final states and presented them using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.4 or 19.7 fb^-1, collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. Three mutually exclusive searches are presented, each optimized for a different decay topology. They include a multijet search requiring one fully reconstructed top quark, a dijet search requiring one or two jets originating from b quarks, and a monojet search. Furthermore, no excesses above the standard model expectations are seen, and limits are set on top and bottom squark production in the context of simplified models of supersymmetry.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: CMS Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1221286

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-15-111-CMS; CERN-PH-EP-2015-055; CMS-SUS-14-001; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1503.08037; TRN: US1500710

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2015, Issue 6; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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