Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G. and Abajyan, T. and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J. and Khalek, S. A. and Abdelalim, A .A. and Abdinov, O. and Aben, R. and Abi, B. and Abolins, M. and AbouZeid, O. S. and Abramowicz, H. and Abreu, H. and Acharya, B. S. and Adamczyk, L. and Adams, D. L. and Addy, T. N. and Adelman, J. and Adomeit, S. and Adragna, P. and Adye, T. and Aefsky, S. and Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. and Agustoni, M. and Aharrouche, M. and Ahlen, S. P. and Ahles, F. and Ahmad, A. and Ahsan, M. and Aielli, G. and Krasznahorkay, Attila and Pásztor, Gabriella and Tóth, József (2013) Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 719 (4-5). pp. 261-279. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A search has been performed for the experimental signature of an isolated photon with high trans- verse momentum, at least one jet identified as originating from a bottom quark, and high missing transverse momentum. Such a final state may originate from supersymmetric models with gauge- mediated supersymmetry breaking in events in which one of a pair of higgsino-like neutralinos decays into a photon and a gravitino while the other decays into a Higgs boson and a gravitino. The search is performed using the full dataset of 7 TeV proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1. A total of 7 candidate events are observed while 7.5 ± 2.2 events are expected from the Standard Model background. The results of the search are interpreted in the context of general gauge mediation to exclude certain regions of a benchmark plane for higgsino-like neutralino production.

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