A search for supersymmetry with R-parity conservation in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35 inverse picobarns collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is performed in events with jets and significant missing transverse energy, characteristic of the decays of heavy, pair-produced squarks and gluinos. The primary background, from standard model multijet production, is reduced by several orders of magnitude to a negligible level by the application of a set of robust kinematic requirements. With this selection, the data are consistent with the standard model backgrounds, namely t t-bar, W + jet and Z + jet production, which are estimated from data control samples. Limits are set on the parameters of the constrained minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. These limits extend those set previously by experiments at the Tevatron and LEP colliders

A search for neutral Higgs bosons in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) decaying to tau-lepton pairs in pp collisions is performed, using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 24.6 fb −1 , with 4.9 fb −1 at 7 TeV and 19.7 fb −1 at 8 TeV. To enhance the sensitivity to neutral MSSM Higgs bosons, the search includes the case where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a b-quark jet. No excess is observed in the tau-lepton-pair invariant mass spectrum. Exclusion limits are presented in the MSSM parameter space for different benchmark scenarios, m max h , m mod+ h , m mod− h , light-stop, lightstau, τ -phobic, and low-m H . Upper limits on the cross section times branching fraction for gluon fusion and b-quark associated Higgs boson production are also given. A Exclusion limits 23The CMS collaboration 37 IntroductionA broad variety of precision measurements have shown the overwhelming success of the standard model (SM) [1][2][3] of fundamental interactions, which includes an explanation for the origin of the mass of the weak force carriers, as well as for the quark and lepton masses. In the SM, this is achieved via the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism [4][5][6][7][8][9], which predicts the existence of a scalar boson, the Higgs boson. However, the Higgs boson mass in the SM is not protected against quadratically divergent quantum-loop corrections at high energy, known as the hierarchy problem. In the model of supersymmetry (SUSY) [10,11], which postulates a symmetry between the fundamental bosons and fermions, a cancellation of these divergences occurs naturally. The Higgs sector of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) [12,13] The dominant neutral MSSM Higgs boson production mechanism is the gluon fusion process for small and moderate values of tan β. At large values of tan β b-quark associated production is the dominant contribution, due to the enhanced Higgs boson Yukawa coupling to b quarks. Figure 1 shows the leading-order diagrams for the gluon fusion and b-quark associated Higgs boson production, in the four-flavor and in the five-flavor scheme. In the region of large tan β the branching fraction to tau leptons is also enhanced, making the search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in the τ τ final state particularly interesting. This paper reports a search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV and 8 TeV in the τ τ decay channel. The data were recorded with the CMS detector [14] at the CERN LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 24.6 fb −1 , with 4.9 fb −1 at 7 TeV and 19.7 fb −1 at 8 TeV. Five different τ τ signatures are studied, eτ h , µτ h , eµ, µµ, and τ h τ h , where τ h denotes a hadronically decaying τ . These results are an extension of previous searches by the The results are interpreted in the context of the MSSM with different benchmark scenarios described in section 1.1 and also in a model independent way, in terms of upper...

The results of comprehensive studies of missing transverse energy as measured by the CMS detector in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV are presented. Three missing transverse energy reconstruction algorithms are deployed for various physics analyses. The scale and resolution for missing transverse energy are validated using vector boson and dijet events, and severe mismeasurements due to the detector are studied. We also parametrize the effects of multiple pp interactions within the same bunch crossings on the scale and resolution. A tool, called missing transverse energy significance, based on particle resolutions in each event is also presented.

The jet fragmentation function of inclusive jets with transverse momentum p T above 100 GeV/c in PbPb collisions has been measured using reconstructed charged particles with p T above 1 GeV/c in a cone of radius 0.3 around the jet axis. A data sample of PbPb collisions collected in 2011 at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of √ s NN = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 150 µb −1 is used. The results for PbPb collisions as a function of collision centrality and jet transverse momentum are compared to reference distributions based on pp data collected at the same center-of-mass energy in 2013, with an integrated luminosity of 5.3 pb −1 . A centrality-dependent modification of the fragmentation function is found. For the most central collisions, a significant enhancement is observed in the PbPb/pp fragmentation function ratio for charged particles with p T less than 3 GeV/c. This enhancement is observed for all jet p T bins studied. 4 Monte Carlo simulations The CMS detectorThe centerpiece of the CMS detector is a superconducting solenoid, 12.5 m long with an internal diameter of 6 m, that provides a uniform magnetic field of 3.8 T. In the CMS coordinate system, the z axis points in the counterclockwise beam direction, the x axis points towards the centre of the LHC ring, and the y axis points up, perpendicular to the plane of the LHC ring. The azimuthal angle φ is measured with respect to the x axis, and the polar angle θ is measured with respect to the z axis. Charged particles or charged particles reconstructed in the inner tracking system are characterized by their transverse momentum, p T = | p| sin θ, and pseudorapidity, η = − ln [tan(θ/2)]. The inner tracking system is composed of a pixel detector with three barrel layers at radii between 4.4 and 10.2 cm and a silicon strip tracker with 10 barrel layers extending outwards to a radius of 110 cm. Two endcap modules extend the acceptance of the tracking system up to |η| = 2.5. The momentum resolution for reconstructed tracks in the barrel region is about 1% at p T = 100 GeV/c and up to 2% in the endcap at the same p T .The calorimeters inside the magnetic coil consist of a lead-tungstate crystal electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) and a brass/scintillator hadron calorimeter (HCAL) with coverage up to |η| = 3. Steel/quartz-fibre Cherenkov hadron forward (HF) calorimeters extend the coverage to |η| = 5.2. Muons are measured in gas-ionization detectors embedded in the steel flux-return yoke of the magnet. The calorimeter cells are grouped in projective towers of granularity ∆η × ∆φ = 0.087 × 0.087 for the central rapidities (|η| ≤ 2) considered in this paper. The energy scale in data agrees with that in the simulation to better than 1% in the barrel region (|η| < 1.5) and better than 3% in the endcap region (1.3 < |η| < 3.0) [20]. Hadron calorimeter cells in the |η| < 3 region are calibrated primarily with test-beam data and radioactive sources [21,22]. A detailed description of the CMS detector can be found in Ref. [23]. Monte Carlo simulat...

Constraints on models of scalar and vector leptoquarks decaying to a quark and a neutrino at √ s = 13 TeVThe CMS Collaboration * AbstractThe results of a previous search by the CMS Collaboration for squarks and gluinos are reinterpreted to constrain models of leptoquark (LQ) production. The search considers jets in association with a transverse momentum imbalance, using the M T2 variable. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data at √ s = 13 TeV, recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb −1 . Leptoquark pair production is considered with LQ decays to a neutrino and a top, bottom, or light quark. This reinterpretation considers higher mass values than the original CMS search to constrain both scalar and vector LQs. Limits on the cross section for LQ pair production are derived at the 95% confidence level depending on the LQ decay mode. A vector LQ decaying with a 50% branching fraction to tν, and 50% to bτ, has been proposed as part of an explanation of anomalous flavor physics results. In such a model, using only the decays to tν, LQ masses below 1530 GeV are excluded assuming the Yang-Mills case with coupling κ = 1, or 1115 GeV in the minimal coupling case κ = 0, placing the most stringent constraint to date from pair production of vector LQs.Published in Physical Review D as