Monojetlike Searches for Top Squarks with a b Tag
Journal article, 2015

The LHC searches for light compressed stop squarks have resulted in considerable bounds in the case where the stop decays to a neutralino and a charm quark. However, in the case where the stop decays to a neutralino, a bottom quark and two fermions via an off-shell W-boson, there is currently a significant unconstrained region in the stop-neutralino mass plane, still allowing for stop masses in the range 90-140 GeV. In this paper we propose a new monojet-like search for light stops, optimized for the four-body decay mode, in which at least one b-tagged jet is required. We show that, already by using the existing 8 TeV LHC data set, such a search would cover the entire unconstrained region. Moreover, in the process of validating our tools against an ATLAS monojet search, we show that the existing limit can be extended to exclude also stop masses below 100 GeV.

LHC

Stop squark

Supersymmetry

Author

Gabriele Ferretti

Chalmers, Fundamental Physics

Christoffer Petersson

Chalmers, Fundamental Physics

Riccardo Torre

Roberto Franceschini

Physical Review Letters

0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)

Vol. 114 20 Art. no. 201801- 201801

Searching for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider in the Higgs era

Swedish Research Council (VR) (2013-475), 2013-07-01 -- 2016-06-30.

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.201801

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