Search for supersymmetry in final states with missing transverse energy and 0,1,2,or ≥3b-quark jets in 7 TeV pp collisions using the variable αT

Chatrchyan, S. and Khachatryan, V. and Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Aguilo, E. and Bergauer, T. and Dragicevic, M. and Erö, J. and Fabjan, C. and Friedl, M. and Frühwirth, R. and Ghete, V. M. and Hammer, J. and Hörmann, N. and Hrubec, J. and Jeitler, M. and Kiesenhofer, W. and Knünz, V. and Krammer, M. and Krätschmer, I. and Liko, D. and Mikulec, I. and Pernicka, M. and Rahbaran, B. and Rohringer, C. and Rohringer, H. and Schöfbeck, R. and Strauss, J. and Taurok, A. and Bencze, György and Hajdu, Csaba and Hidas, Pál and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Vesztergombi, György and Béni, Noémi Tekla and Czellár, Sándor and Molnár, József and Pálinkás, József and Szillási, Zoltán and Karancsi, János and Raics, Péter and Trócsányi, Zoltán and Ujvári, Balázs and Veres, Gábor and Krajczár, Krisztián (2013) Search for supersymmetry in final states with missing transverse energy and 0,1,2,or ≥3b-quark jets in 7 TeV pp collisions using the variable αT. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (1). ISSN 1126-6708

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Abstract

A search for supersymmetry in final states with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.98 fb−1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. In this search, a dimensionless kinematic variable, αT, is used as the main discriminator between events with genuine and misreconstructed missing transverse energy. The search is performed in a signal region that is binned in the scalar sum of the transverse energy of jets and the number of jets identified as originating from a bottom quark. No excess of events over the standard model expectation is found. Exclusion limits are set in the parameter space of the constrained minimal supersym- metric extension of the standard model, and also in simplified models, with a special emphasis on compressed spectra and third-generation scenarios.

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