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Searches for physics beyond the standard model with the MT2 variable in hadronic final states with and without disappearing tracks in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Sirunyan, AM; Tumasyan, A; Adam, W; Ambrogi, F; Bergauer, T; Brandstetter, J; Dragicevic, M; ... Chagas, EBBD; + view all (2020) Searches for physics beyond the standard model with the MT2 variable in hadronic final states with and without disappearing tracks in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. European Physical Journal C , 80 , Article 3. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7493-x. Green open access

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Abstract

Two related searches for phenomena beyond the standard model (BSM) are performed using events with hadronic jets and significant transverse momentum imbalance. The results are based on a sample of proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016–2018 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. The first search is inclusive, based on signal regions defined by the hadronic energy in the event, the jet multiplicity, the number of jets identified as originating from bottom quarks, and the value of the kinematic variable MT2 for events with at least two jets. For events with exactly one jet, the transverse momentum of the jet is used instead. The second search looks in addition for disappearing tracks produced by BSM longlived charged particles that decay within the volume of the tracking detector. No excess event yield is observed above the predicted standard model background. This is used to constrain a range of BSM models that predict the following: the pair production of gluinos and squarks in the context of supersymmetry models conserving R-parity, with or without intermediate long-lived charginos produced in the decay chain; the resonant production of a colored scalar state decaying to a massive Dirac fermion and a quark; or the pair production of scalar and vector leptoquarks each decaying to a neutrino and a top, bottom, or light-flavor quark. In most of the cases, the results obtained are the most stringent constraints to date.

Type: Article
Title: Searches for physics beyond the standard model with the MT2 variable in hadronic final states with and without disappearing tracks in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7493-x
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7493-x
Language: English
Additional information: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10097403
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