CMS-PAS-SUS-13-019

CMS-PAS-SUS-13-019
Search for supersymmetry in hadronic final states using MT2 with the CMS detector at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
CMS Collaboration
2014

Abstract: A search for supersymmetry or similar new physics is carried out using asample with 19.5 fb $^{-1}$ integrated luminosity of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV pp collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Our main approach, the inclusive $M_\mathrm{T2}$ analysis, is based on fully hadronic final states. Events are selected using the stransverse mass variable, $M_\mathrm{T2}$ , and analyzed separately for different jet and b-tagged jet multiplicities. The signal is separated from the standard model background by requiring high values of $M_\mathrm{T2}$ . The remaining backgrounds consist of $Z$ +jets events where the $Z$ decays to neutrinos, $W$ +jets events, and $t\bar{t}$ +jets events, where one $W$ is decaying leptonically, but the charged lepton escaping detection. A second line of approach, the $M_\mathrm{T2}$ Higgs analysis, targets supersymmetric models with a Higgs boson produced within supersymmetric cascades and exploits the dominant decay channel to $b \bar{b}$ . We search for a signal in the invariant mass distribution of the selected b pairs. For both approaches, all backgrounds are estimated using data-driven methods. No significant excess of events over the expected background is observed. Exclusion limits in various simplified models are derived.
Links: CDS record (PDF) ; inSPIRE record ; Public twiki page ; CADI line (restricted) ; These preliminary results are superseded in this paper, JHEP 05 (2015) 078. The superseded preliminary plots can be found here.

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