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Title: | Search for Supersymmetry with a Compressed Mass Spectrum in Events with a Soft τ Lepton, a Highly Energetic Jet, and Large Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =13 TeV |
Authors: | Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Ambrogi, F Bergauer, T Brandstetter, J Dragicevic, M Erö, J Escalante Del Valle, A Flechl, M Frühwirth, R Jeitler, M Krammer, N Krätschmer, I Liko, D Madlener, T Mikulec, I Rad, N Schieck, J Schöfbeck, R Spanring, M Spitzbart, D Waltenberger, W Wulz, CE Zarucki, M Drugakov, V Mossolov, V Suarez Gonzalez, J Darwish, MR De Wolf, EA Di Croce, D Janssen, X Lelek, A Pieters, M Rejeb Sfar, H Van Haevermaet, H Van Mechelen, P Van Putte, S Van Remortel, N Blekman, F Bols, ES Chhibra, SS D'Hondt, J De Clercq, J Lontkovskyi, D Lowette, S Marchesini, I Moortgat, S Python, Q Skovpen, K Tavernier, S Van Doninck, W Van Mulders, P Beghin, D Bilin, B Brun, H Clerbaux, B De Lentdecker, G Delannoy, H Dorney, B Favart, L Grebenyuk, A Kalsi, AK Popov, A Postiau, N Starling, E Thomas, L Vander Velde, C Vanlaer, P Vannerom, D Cornelis, T Dobur, D Khvastunov, I Niedziela, M Roskas, C Tytgat, M Verbeke, W Vermassen, B Vit, M Bondu, O Bruno, G Caputo, C David, P Delaere, C Delcourt, M Giammanco, A Lemaitre, V Prisciandaro, J Saggio, A Vidal Marono, M Vischia, P Zobec, J Alves, FL Alves, GA Correia Silva, G Hensel, C Moraes, A Rebello Teles, P Belchior Batista Das Chagas, E Carvalho, W |
Keywords: | Supersymmetric models;Superpartners;Tau leptons;Hadron colliders |
Issue Date: | 29-Jan-2020 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters, 2020, 124 (4) |
Abstract: | © 2020 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP 3 . The first search for supersymmetry in events with an experimental signature of one soft, hadronically decaying τ lepton, one energetic jet from initial-state radiation, and large transverse momentum imbalance is presented. These event signatures are consistent with direct or indirect production of scalar τ leptons (τ) in supersymmetric models that exhibit coannihilation between the τ and the lightest neutralino (χ10), and that could generate the observed relic density of dark matter. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 77.2 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016 and 2017. The results are interpreted in a supersymmetric scenario with a small mass difference (Δm) between the chargino (χ1±) or next-to-lightest neutralino (χ20), and the χ10. The mass of the τ is assumed to be the average of the χ1± and χ10 masses. The data are consistent with standard model background predictions. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the sum of the χ1±, χ20, and τ production cross sections for Δm(χ1±,χ10)=50 GeV, resulting in a lower limit of 290 GeV on the mass of the χ1±, which is the most stringent to date and surpasses the bounds from the LEP experiments. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/20748 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.041803 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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