TY - JOUR

T1 - Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two leptons in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

AU - Barton, Adam Edward

AU - Beattie, Michael

AU - Bertram, Iain Alexander

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann

AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

AU - Love, Peter Allan

AU - Muenstermann, Daniel Matthias Alfred

AU - Parker, Adam Jackson

AU - Skinner, Malcolm

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Walder, James William

AU - Wharton, Andy

AU - Whitmore, Ben

AU - The ATLAS collaboration

N1 - EPJC is an open-access journal funded by SCOAP3 and licensed under CC BY 4.0

PY - 2017/12/22

Y1 - 2017/12/22

N2 - The results of a search for direct pair production of top squarks in events with two opposite-charge leptons (electrons or muons) are reported, using 36.1 fb−1 of integrated luminosity from proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. To cover a range of mass differences between the top squark t~ and lighter supersymmetric particles, four possible decay modes of the top squark are targeted with dedicated selections: the decay t~→bχ~±1 into a b-quark and the lightest chargino with χ~±1→Wχ~01, the decay t~→tχ~01 into an on-shell top quark and the lightest neutralino, the three-body decay t~→bWχ~01 and the four-body decay t~→bℓνχ~01. No significant excess of events is observed above the Standard Model background for any selection, and limits on top squarks are set as a function of the t~ and χ~01 masses. The results exclude at 95% confidence level t~ masses up to about 720 GeV, extending the exclusion region of supersymmetric parameter space covered by previous searches.

AB - The results of a search for direct pair production of top squarks in events with two opposite-charge leptons (electrons or muons) are reported, using 36.1 fb−1 of integrated luminosity from proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. To cover a range of mass differences between the top squark t~ and lighter supersymmetric particles, four possible decay modes of the top squark are targeted with dedicated selections: the decay t~→bχ~±1 into a b-quark and the lightest chargino with χ~±1→Wχ~01, the decay t~→tχ~01 into an on-shell top quark and the lightest neutralino, the three-body decay t~→bWχ~01 and the four-body decay t~→bℓνχ~01. No significant excess of events is observed above the Standard Model background for any selection, and limits on top squarks are set as a function of the t~ and χ~01 masses. The results exclude at 95% confidence level t~ masses up to about 720 GeV, extending the exclusion region of supersymmetric parameter space covered by previous searches.

U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5445-x

DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5445-x

M3 - Journal article

VL - 77

JO - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields

JF - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields

SN - 1434-6044

IS - 12

M1 - 898

ER -