Search for scalar top quark pair production in natural gauge mediated supersymmetry models with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

G. Aad, Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, John Renner Hansen, Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert, Sascha Mehlhase, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Troels Christian Petersen, Björn Stefan Nilsson, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Stefania Xella

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Abstract

The results of a search for pair production of the lighter scalar partners of top quarks (t~1) in 2.05 fb -1 of pp collisions at s=7 TeV using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are reported. Scalar top quarks are searched for in events with two same flavour opposite-sign leptons (e, μ) with invariant mass consistent with the Z boson mass, large missing transverse momentum and jets in the final state. At least one of the jets is identified as originating from a b-quark. No excess over Standard Model expectations is found. The results are interpreted in the framework of R-parity conserving, gauge mediated Supersymmetry breaking 'natural' scenarios, where the neutralino (χ~10) is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle. Scalar top quark masses up to 310 GeV are excluded for 115GeV<mχ~10<230GeV at 95% confidence level, reaching an exclusion of mt~1<330GeV for mχ~10=190GeV. Scalar top quark masses below 240 GeV are excluded for all values of mχ~10>mZ.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftPhysics Letters B
Vol/bind715
Udgave nummer1-3
Sider (fra-til)44-60
ISSN0370-2693
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 29 aug. 2012

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