Speaker
Warren Andrews
(Univ. of California San Diego (US))
Description
We present a search for new physics in the final state of a leptonically decaying Z boson and missing transverse energy (MET) utilizing the full 2011 dataset collected by the CMS detector. Two complementary search regions are investigated. The first requires a leptonic Z and two or more jets, and searches in the high MET tail. The second applies additional requirements to increase sensitivity to electroweak production of new physics. These requirements include a veto on b tagged jets and a cut on the dijet invariant mass to select jets from a W or Z decay, both of which highly suppress Standard Model (SM) backgrounds. These searches are sensitive to a variety of new physics scenarios involving Z bosons, including electroweak production of particles which decay to Zs. Fake MET from SM Z+Jets background is modeled using a data driven MET templates technique, and ttbar background is predicted using opposite flavor dilepton events.
<strong>Collaboration Name</strong><br /><font color="#000099">Please enter the name of<br />the collaboration or group<br />using the acronym, as in:<br /><font color="#ff0000">ABC Collaboration</font>
CMS Collaboration
<strong>Funding Source</strong>
US Department of Energy
| <strong>E-mail Address</strong> | warren.andrews@cern.ch |
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Primary author
Warren Andrews
(Univ. of California San Diego (US))
