Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
Results are reported from a search for R-parity violating supersymmetry in proton-proton collision events collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of √s=8 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 17.6 fb−1. This search assumes a minimal flavor violating model in which the lightest supersymmetric particle is a long-lived neutralino or gluino, leading to a signal with jets emanating from displaced vertices. In a sample of events with two displaced vertices, no excess yield above the expectation from standard model processes is observed, and limits are placed on the pair production cross section as a function of mass and lifetime of the neutralino or gluino. At 95% confidence level, the analysis excludes cross sections above approximately 1 fb for neutralinos or gluinos with mass between 400 and 1500 GeV and mean proper decay length between 1 and 30 mm. Gluino masses are excluded below 1 and 1.3 TeV for mean proper decay lengths of 300 μm and 1 mm, respectively, and below 1.4 TeV for the range 2–30 mm. The results are also applicable to other models in which long-lived particles decay into multijet final states.
Khachatryan, Vardan
375bcfe5-df1a-41ad-9a90-553e557ef6d6
Belyaev, Alexander
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25 January 2017
Khachatryan, Vardan
375bcfe5-df1a-41ad-9a90-553e557ef6d6
Belyaev, Alexander
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3
The CMS Collaboration
(2017)
Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV.
Physical Review D, 95 (012009).
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.012009).
Abstract
Results are reported from a search for R-parity violating supersymmetry in proton-proton collision events collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of √s=8 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 17.6 fb−1. This search assumes a minimal flavor violating model in which the lightest supersymmetric particle is a long-lived neutralino or gluino, leading to a signal with jets emanating from displaced vertices. In a sample of events with two displaced vertices, no excess yield above the expectation from standard model processes is observed, and limits are placed on the pair production cross section as a function of mass and lifetime of the neutralino or gluino. At 95% confidence level, the analysis excludes cross sections above approximately 1 fb for neutralinos or gluinos with mass between 400 and 1500 GeV and mean proper decay length between 1 and 30 mm. Gluino masses are excluded below 1 and 1.3 TeV for mean proper decay lengths of 300 μm and 1 mm, respectively, and below 1.4 TeV for the range 2–30 mm. The results are also applicable to other models in which long-lived particles decay into multijet final states.
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Accepted/In Press date: 17 October 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 January 2017
Published date: 25 January 2017
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[Phys. Rev.D95,012009(2017)]
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408130
ISSN: 2470-0029
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Vardan Khachatryan
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