TY - JOUR

T1 - Search for massive supersymmetric particles decaying to many jets using the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s √ =8  TeV

AU - Allison, Lee

AU - Barton, Adam

AU - Beattie, Michael

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva

AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre

AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Grimm, Kathryn

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin

AU - Love, Peter

AU - Maddocks, Harvey

AU - Skinner, Malcolm

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Walder, James

AU - Wharton, Andy

AU - The ATLAS collaboration

N1 - This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. © 2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration Date of Acceptance not available

PY - 2015/6/29

Y1 - 2015/6/29

N2 - Results of a search for decays of massive particles to fully hadronic final states are presented. This search uses 20.3  fb −1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector in s √ =8  TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC. Signatures based on high jet multiplicities without requirements on the missing transverse momentum are used to search for R -parity-violating supersymmetric gluino pair production with subsequent decays to quarks. The analysis is performed using a requirement on the number of jets, in combination with separate requirements on the number of b -tagged jets, as well as a topological observable formed from the scalar sum of the mass values of large-radius jets in the event. Results are interpreted in the context of all possible branching ratios of direct gluino decays to various quark flavors. No significant deviation is observed from the expected Standard Model backgrounds estimated using jet counting as well as data-driven templates of the total-jet-mass spectra. Gluino pair decays to ten or more quarks via intermediate neutralinos are excluded for a gluino with mass m g ˜ <1  TeV for a neutralino mass m χ ˜ 0 1 =500  GeV . Direct gluino decays to six quarks are excluded for m g ˜ <917  GeV for light-flavor final states, and results for various flavor hypotheses are presented.

AB - Results of a search for decays of massive particles to fully hadronic final states are presented. This search uses 20.3  fb −1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector in s √ =8  TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC. Signatures based on high jet multiplicities without requirements on the missing transverse momentum are used to search for R -parity-violating supersymmetric gluino pair production with subsequent decays to quarks. The analysis is performed using a requirement on the number of jets, in combination with separate requirements on the number of b -tagged jets, as well as a topological observable formed from the scalar sum of the mass values of large-radius jets in the event. Results are interpreted in the context of all possible branching ratios of direct gluino decays to various quark flavors. No significant deviation is observed from the expected Standard Model backgrounds estimated using jet counting as well as data-driven templates of the total-jet-mass spectra. Gluino pair decays to ten or more quarks via intermediate neutralinos are excluded for a gluino with mass m g ˜ <1  TeV for a neutralino mass m χ ˜ 0 1 =500  GeV . Direct gluino decays to six quarks are excluded for m g ˜ <917  GeV for light-flavor final states, and results for various flavor hypotheses are presented.

U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.112016

DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.112016

M3 - Journal article

VL - 91

JO - Physical Review D

JF - Physical Review D

SN - 1550-7998

IS - 11

M1 - 112016

ER -