Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with two leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV

Khachatryan, Vardan

doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2015)124

Title: Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with two leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV

Journal Article · Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2015)124· OSTI ID:1221270

Khachatryan, Vardan ^[1]

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

Our search is presented for physics beyond the standard model in final states with two opposite-sign same-flavor leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.4 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2012. The analysis focuses on searches for a kinematic edge in the invariant mass distribution of the oppositesign same-flavor lepton pair and for final states with an on-shell Z boson. Furthermore, the observations are consistent with expectations from standard model processes and are interpreted in terms of upper limits on the production of supersymmetric particles.

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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:: 1221270

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-15-062-CMS; CERN-PH-EP-2015-033; CMS-SUS-14-014; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1502.06031; TRN: US1500704

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2015, Issue 4; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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