Searches for third-generation squark production in fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV


Khachatryan V., Sirunyan A. M., Tumasyan A., Adam W., Asilar E., Bergauer T., ...More

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, no.6, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep06(2015)116
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Keywords: Supersymmetry, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS, MEASURING MASSES, MISSING ENERGY, SUPERSYMMETRY, BREAKING, NATURALNESS, PHYSICS, MODELS
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Searches for third-generation squarks in fully hadronic final states are presented using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.4 or 19.7 fb(-1), collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. Three mutually exclusive searches are presented, each optimized for a different decay topology. They include a multijet search requiring one fully reconstructed top quark, a dijet search requiring one or two jets originating from b quarks, and a monojet search. No excesses above the standard model expectations are seen, and limits are set on top and bottom squark production in the context of simplified models of supersymmetry.