Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Higgs or Z boson, and missing transverse momentum in root s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

TY - JOUR

T1 - Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Higgs or Z boson, and missing transverse momentum in root s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

AU - Aaboud, M.

AU - Aad, G.

AU - Abbott, B.

AU - Abdinov, O.

AU - Abeloos, B

AU - AbouZeid, O.S.

AU - Abraham, NL

AU - Abramowicz, H.

AU - Abreu, H.

AU - Abreu, R.

AU - Abulaiti, Y.

AU - Acharya, B.S.

AU - Adachi, Shin-ichi

AU - Dam, Mogens

AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines

AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck

AU - Xella, Stefania

AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik

AU - Petersen, Troels Christian

AU - Løvschall-Jensen, Ask Emil

AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro

AU - Monk, James William

AU - Pedersen, Lars Egholm

AU - Wiglesworth, Graig

AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn

AU - Stark, Simon Holm

AU - Besjes, Geert-Jan

AU - Thiele, Fabian Alexander Jürgen

AU - de Almeida Dias, Flavia

AU - Bajic, Milena

AU - Barr, John

AU - Arnold, H.

AU - Zhu, H.

AU - Zwalinski, L.

PY - 2017/8/1

Y1 - 2017/8/1

N2 - A search for direct top squark pair production resulting in events with either a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair with invariant mass compatible with a Z boson or a pair of jets compatible with a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson (h) is presented. Requirements on the missing transverse momentum, together with additional selections on leptons, jets, jets identified as originating from b-quarks are imposed to target the other decay products of the top squark pair. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015–2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. No excess is observed in the data with respect to the SM predictions. The results are interpreted in two sets of models. In the first set, direct production of pairs of lighter top squarks (t˜ 1) with long decay chains involving Z or Higgs bosons is considered. The second set includes direct pair production of the heavier top squark pairs (t˜ 2) decaying via t˜ 2→ Zt˜ 1 or t˜ 2→ ht˜ 1. The results exclude at 95% confidence level t˜ 2 and t˜ 1 masses up to about 800 GeV, extending the exclusion region of supersymmetric parameter space covered by previous LHC searches.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

AB - A search for direct top squark pair production resulting in events with either a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair with invariant mass compatible with a Z boson or a pair of jets compatible with a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson (h) is presented. Requirements on the missing transverse momentum, together with additional selections on leptons, jets, jets identified as originating from b-quarks are imposed to target the other decay products of the top squark pair. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015–2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. No excess is observed in the data with respect to the SM predictions. The results are interpreted in two sets of models. In the first set, direct production of pairs of lighter top squarks (t˜ 1) with long decay chains involving Z or Higgs bosons is considered. The second set includes direct pair production of the heavier top squark pairs (t˜ 2) decaying via t˜ 2→ Zt˜ 1 or t˜ 2→ ht˜ 1. The results exclude at 95% confidence level t˜ 2 and t˜ 1 masses up to about 800 GeV, extending the exclusion region of supersymmetric parameter space covered by previous LHC searches.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

U2 - 10.1007/JHEP08(2017)006

DO - 10.1007/JHEP08(2017)006

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1126-6708

VL - 2017

JO - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

JF - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

IS - 8

M1 - 006

ER -