ATLAS Collaboration (Including: Farrington, Sinead, Harrison, P. F., Janus, M., Jeske, C., Jones, G. (Graham), Martin, T. A., Murray, W. and Pianori, E.). (2014) Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume 2014 (Number 6). Article number 124. doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2014)124 ISSN 1029-8479.

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Leptons (Nuclear physics), Pair production, Proton-proton interactions, Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	1029-8479
Official Date:	19 June 2014
Dates:	Date Event 19 June 2014 Published 2 June 2014 Accepted 20 March 2014 Submitted
Volume:	Volume 2014
Number:	Number 6
Article Number:	Article number 124
DOI:	10.1007/JHEP06(2014)124
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	28 July 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	28 July 2016
Funder:	Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), Yerevan Physics Institute (Armenia), Australian Research Council (ARC), Austria. Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung [Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture], Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria) (FWF), Azärbaycan Milli Elmlär Akademiyası, Sosny Science and Technology Center (Belarus), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), National Research Council Canada (NRCC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Chile. Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Zhongguo ke xue yuan [Chinese Academy of Sciences] (CAS), China. Guo jia ke xue ji shu bu [Ministry of Science and Technology], Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), Fondo Colombiano de Investigaciones Científicas y Proyectos Especiales Francisco José de Caldas (COLCIENCIAS), Czech Republic. Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy [Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport], Czech Republic. Ministerstvo průmyslu a obchodu [Ministry of Industry and Trade] (MPO), VSC CR (Czech Republic), Danmarks Grundforskningsfond [Danish National Research Foundation], Statens naturvidenskabelige forskningsråd (Denmark) [Danish Natural Science Research Council] (DNSRC), Lundbeck Foundation, European Particle physics Latin American NETwork (EPLANET), European Research Council (ERC), National Strategic Reference Framework (Greece) (NSRF), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) (CNRS), France. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), Legal Entity of Public Law, Rustaveli National Science Foundation (LEPL, RNSF), Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvHS), Greece. General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Minerva Stiftung, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, Israeli Centers of Research Excellence (I-CORE), Benoziyo Center (Israel), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Japan. Monbu Kagakushō [Japan. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] (MK), Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science] (NGS), Centre national pour la recherche scientifique et technique (Morocco), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO), BRF (Norway), Norges forskningsråd [Norwegian Research Council], Poland. Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego [Ministry of Science and Higher Education] (MNiSW), Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN), Portugal. Gabinete de Relações Internacionais da Ciência e do Ensino Superior [Portuguese Office for International Relations in Science and Higher Education] (GRICES), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), MEN (Romania), Institutul de Fizică Atomică (IFA), Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo obrazovanii︠a︡ i nauki [Ministry of Education and Science], Federalʹnoe agentstvo po atomnoĭ ėnergii (Russia), Serbia. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Serbia. Ministarstvo za nauku i tehnologiju i razvoj, Slovakia. Ministerstvo spravodlivosti (MSSR), Slovenia. Javna agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost (ASSR), Slovenia. Ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost in šport (MIZŠ), South Africa. Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation (South Africa) (NRF), Spain. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness] (MINECO), Sweden. Vetenskapsrådet [Research Council], Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (Sweden), Switzerland. Staatssekretariat für Ausbildung und Forschung (SER), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF), Bern (Switzerland : Canton), Geneva (Switzerland : Canton), Guo jia ke xue wei yuan hui [National Science Council (Taiwan)], Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), Royal Society (Great Britain), Leverhulme Trust (LT), United States. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF)

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