Speaker
Sezen Sekmen
(CERN)
Description
Natural SUSY suggests the existence of light stop quarks,
accessible at the LHC, which are the focus of a dedicated CMS search program.
Here we present a more inclusive strategy. We look for a SUSY signal as an excess on a falling background
distribution in the kinematic planes identified by several sets of variables. Complementary searches are described including
all hadronic as well as one lepton final states, with and without the use of jet substructure techniques to identify boosted W bosons that
decay hadronically. In all cases, b-tagging is used as a tool to reduce SM backgrounds. We show that these inclusive analyses
have excellent sensitivity to both direct stop pair production as well as stops coming from decays of heavier sparticles, and
other b-rich final states from cascade decays of gluinos, sbottoms, or stops.
Primary author
Dr
Kerstin Borras
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
