Proceeding for LHCP2014 Poster: Search for direct pair production of the top squark in all-hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at √(s)=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

2014/08/29 by Wanotayaroj, Chaowaroj
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.6975

Abstract

The results of a search for direct pair production of the scalar partner to the top quark using an integrated luminosity of 20.1 \rmfb^-1 of proton-proton collision data at √(s)=8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are reported. The top squark is assumed to decay via t → t χ₁⁰ or t→ bχ₁^± → b W^(∗) χ₁⁰, where χ₁⁰ (χ₁^±) denotes the lightest neutralino (chargino) in supersymmetric models. The search targets a fully-hadronic final state in events with four or more jets and large missing transverse momentum. No significant excess over the Standard Model background prediction is observed, and exclusion limits are reported in terms of the top squark and neutralino masses and as a function of the branching fraction of t → t χ₁⁰. For a branching fraction of 100%, top squark masses in the range 270-645 GeV are excluded for χ₁⁰ masses below 30 GeV. For a branching fraction of 50% to either t → t χ₁⁰ or t→ bχ₁^±, and assuming the χ₁^± mass to be twice the χ₁⁰ mass, top squark masses in the range 250-550 GeV are excluded for χ₁⁰ masses below 60 GeV.

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