Search for direct production of charginos, neutralinos and sleptons in final states with two leptons and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

Searches for the electroweak production of charginos, neutralinos and sleptons in final states characterized by the presence of two leptons (electrons and muons) and missing transverse momentum are performed using 20.3 fb −1 of proton-proton collision data at √ s = 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.No significant excess beyond Standard Model expectations is observed. Limits are set on the masses of the lightest chargino, next-to-lightest neutralino and sleptons for different lightest-neutralino mass hypotheses in simplified models. Results are also interpreted in various scenarios of the phenomenological Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.Keywords: Supersymmetry, Hadron-Hadron Scattering The ATLAS collaboration 33 IntroductionSupersymmetry (SUSY) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] is a spacetime symmetry that postulates for each Standard Model (SM) particle the existence of a partner particle whose spin differs by one-half unit. The introduction of these new particles provides a potential solution to the hierarchy problem [10][11][12][13]. If R-parity is conserved [14][15][16][17][18], as is assumed in this paper, SUSY particles are always produced in pairs and the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) emerges as a stable dark-matter candidate.-1 - JHEP05(2014)071The charginos and neutralinos are mixtures of the bino, winos and higgsinos that are superpartners of the U(1), SU(2) gauge bosons and the Higgs bosons, respectively. Their mass eigenstates are referred to asχ ± i (i = 1, 2) andχ 0 j (j = 1, 2, 3, 4) in the order of increasing masses. Even though the gluinos and squarks are produced strongly in pp collisions, if the masses of the gluinos and squarks are large, the direct production of charginos, neutralinos and sleptons through electroweak interactions may dominate the production of SUSY particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Such a scenario is possible in the general framework of the phenomenological minimal supersymmetric SM (pMSSM) [19][20][21]. Naturalness suggests that third-generation sparticles and some of the charginos and neutralinos should have masses of a few hundred GeV [22,23]. Light sleptons are expected in gauge-mediated [24][25][26][27][28][29] and anomaly-mediated [30,31] SUSY breaking scenarios. Light sleptons could also play a role in the co-annihilation of neutralinos, allowing a dark matter relic density consistent with cosmological observations [32,33]. This paper presents searches for electroweak production of charginos, neutralinos and sleptons using 20.3 fb −1 of proton-proton collision data with a centre-of-mass energy √ s = 8 TeV collected at the LHC with the ATLAS detector. The searches target final states with two oppositely-charged leptons (electrons or muons) and missing transverse momentum. Similar searches [34,35] SUSY scenariosSimplified models [42] are considered for optimization of the event selection and interpretation of the results. The LSP is the lightest neutralinoχ 0 1 in all SUSY scenarios considered, except in...

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