Search for electroweak production of supersymmetric states in scenarios with compressed mass spectra at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS detector



Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, Abouzeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H
et al (show 75 more authors) (2018) Search for electroweak production of supersymmetric states in scenarios with compressed mass spectra at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 97 (5).

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Abstract

© 2018 CERN. © 2018 CERN, for the ATLAS 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 . A search for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in scenarios with compressed mass spectra in final states with two low-momentum leptons and missing transverse momentum is presented. This search uses proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015-2016, corresponding to 36.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity at s=13 TeV. Events with same-flavor pairs of electrons or muons with opposite electric charge are selected. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model prediction. Results are interpreted using simplified models of R-parity-conserving supersymmetry in which there is a small mass difference between the masses of the produced supersymmetric particles and the lightest neutralino. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are set on next-to-lightest neutralino masses of up to 145 GeV for Higgsino production and 175 GeV for wino production, and slepton masses of up to 190 GeV for pair production of sleptons. In the compressed mass regime, the exclusion limits extend down to mass splittings of 2.5 GeV for Higgsino production, 2 GeV for wino production, and 1 GeV for slepton production. The results are also interpreted in the context of a radiatively-driven natural supersymmetry model with nonuniversal Higgs boson masses.

Item Type: Article
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 20 Aug 2018 09:30
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 01:26
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.052010
Open Access URL: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/Phys...
URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3025290