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# Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

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).

Record type: Article

## 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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PhysRevD.95

Accepted/In Press date: 17 October 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 January 2017
Published date: 25 January 2017
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 408130
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408130
ISSN: 2470-0029
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 12 May 2017 04:04

## Contributors

Author: Vardan Khachatryan
Corporate Author: The CMS Collaboration