A search for top squarks with R-parity-violating decays to all-hadronic final states with the ATLAS detector in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions

G. Aad; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; O. Abdinov; B Abeloos; R. Aben; M. Abolins; O.S. AbouZeid; H. Abramowicz; H. Abreu; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen; Almut Maria Pingel; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Lars Egholm Pedersen

doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2016)067

A search for top squarks with R-parity-violating decays to all-hadronic final states with the ATLAS detector in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, R. Aben, M. Abolins, O.S. AbouZeid, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Almut Maria Pingel, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso DiazJames William Monk, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Lars Egholm Pedersen

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A search for the pair production of top squarks, each with R-parity-violating decays into two Standard Model quarks, is performed using 17.4 fb⁻¹ of √s = 8 TeV proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Each top squark is assumed to decay to a b- and an s-quark, leading to four quarks in the final state. Background discrimination is achieved with the use of b-tagging and selections on the mass and substructure of large-radius jets, providing sensitivity to top squark masses as low as 100 GeV. No evidence of an excess beyond the Standard Model background prediction is observed and top squarks decaying to b¯ s¯ are excluded for top squark masses in the range 100 ≤ m_t≤ 315 GeV at 95% confidence level.

Original language	English
Article number	067
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Volume	2016
Issue number	6
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)067
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2016

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Aben, R., Abolins, M., AbouZeid, O. S., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Thomsen, L. A., Pingel, A. M., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., ... Pedersen, L. E. (2016). A search for top squarks with R-parity-violating decays to all-hadronic final states with the ATLAS detector in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions. Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), 2016(6), [067]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)067

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Aben, R, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Thomsen, LA, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Wiglesworth, G, Galster, GAGK & Pedersen, LE 2016, 'A search for top squarks with R-parity-violating decays to all-hadronic final states with the ATLAS detector in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions', Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), vol. 2016, no. 6, 067. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)067

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