Collider Cross Talk

SUSY Searches with MET, jets and opposite sign di-leptons from ATLAS and CMS

by Emma Sian Kuwertz (University of Victoria (CA)), Konstantinos Theofilatos (ETH Zurich)

Europe/Zurich
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Description
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have recently published searches for supersymmetry in final states containing a same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair, jets and missing transverse momentum. Two production mechanisms are considered: neutralino decays resulting in a kinematic edge in the dilepton invariant mass distribution; and decays of neutralinos with Z bosons in the final state, resulting in an invariant mass peak around the Z-boson mass. For the former, an excess of 2.6 \sigma is observed by CMS with respect to the SM expectation. For the latter, ATLAS reports a 3 \sigma excess. Here we discuss the analyses and results reported by both experiments.
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