Rose, Anthony (2013) Search for supersymmetry in events with leptons (e, μ, τ), jets and missing transverse energy with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.

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Abstract

Two searches for events containing τ-leptons, jets, large missing transverse momentum, and zero or one light leptons (ℓ = e,μ) in the final state have been performed using proton-proton collision data at √s = 7 TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The first search was performed using 2:05fb-1 of the ATLAS data collected in 2011, and focused on the final state containing two hadronically decaying τ-leptons. For the second search the dataset was extended to 4:7fb-1, and four separate channels (1τ, 2τ, τ+e, τ+μ) were combined for the final result. No excess above the Standard Model background expectation is observed and 95% CL visible cross-section upper limits for new phenomena are set. In the framework of gauge-mediated SUSY-breaking models (GMSB), exclusion limits on the GMSB mass scale Λ are set at 54 TeV in the regions where the lightest ~τ is the next-to-lightest SUSY particle (tan β > 20). These limits provide the most stringent tests to date of GMSB models in a large part of the considered parameter space.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics > QC0770 Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity > QC0793 Elementary particle physics
Depositing User:	Library Cataloguing
Date Deposited:	10 Dec 2013 17:06
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2015 14:43
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47218

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