Vivarelli, I, Salvatore, F, De Santo, A, Cerri, A, Suruliz, K, De Sanctis, U, Sutton, M, Potter, T, Chavez Barajas, C, et al., and ATLAS Collaboration, (2013) Search for light top squark pair production in final states with leptons and b-jets with the ATLAS detector in √s=7 TeV proton–proton collisions. Physics Letters B, 720 (1-3). pp. 13-31. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

The results of a search for pair production of light top squarks are presented, using 4.7 fb−1 of √s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. This search targets top squarks with masses similar to, or lighter than, the top quark mass. Final states containing exclusively one or two leptons (e,μ), large missing transverse momentum, light-flavour jets and b-jets are used to reconstruct the top squark pair system. Event-based mass scale variables are used to separate the signal from a large tt ̄ background. No excess over the Standard Model expectations is found. The results are interpreted in the framework of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, assuming the top squark decays exclusively to a chargino and a b-quark, while requiring different mass relation- ships between the Supersymmetric particles in the decay chain. Light top squarks with masses between 123–167 GeV are excluded for neutralino masses around 55 GeV.

Item Type:	Article
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:	Iacopo Vivarelli
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2014 12:25
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2019 00:03
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/49320

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