Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector

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

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Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Sascha Mehlhase, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Almut Maria Pingel, Ask Emil Løvschall-JensenAlejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig Wiglesworth

Experimental Particle Physics

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Abstract

A search is presented for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons (electrons or muons) of opposite charge using 20.3 fb ^-1 of pp collision data at √s = 8 TeV, collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. No excess over the Standard Model expectation is found. The results are interpreted under the separate assumptions (i) that the top squark decays to a b-quark in addition to an on-shell chargino whose decay occurs via a real or virtual W boson, or (ii) that the top squark decays to a t-quark and the lightest neutralino. A top squark with a mass between 150 GeV and 445 GeV decaying to a b-quark and an on-shell chargino is excluded at 95% confidence level for a top squark mass equal to the chargino mass plus 10 GeV, in the case of a 1 GeV lightest neutralino. Top squarks with masses between 215 (90) GeV and 530 (170) GeV decaying to an on-shell (off-shell) t-quark and a neutralino are excluded at 95% confidence level for a 1 GeV neutralino. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English
Article number	1406
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Volume	2014
Issue number	124
Number of pages	66
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2014)124
Publication status	Published - Jun 2014

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abi, B., Abolins, M., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Galster, G. A. G. K., Thomsen, L. A., Mehlhase, S., Jørgensen, M. D., Pingel, A. M., ... Wiglesworth, G. (2014). Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), 2014(124), [1406]. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2014)124

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdel Khalek, S, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Galster, GAGK, Thomsen, LA, Mehlhase, S, Jørgensen, MD, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE & Wiglesworth, G 2014, 'Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector', Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), vol. 2014, no. 124, 1406. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2014)124

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Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector

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