Speaker
Robyn Lucas
(Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
Description
Supersymmetry scenarios in which squarks, particularly in the third generation,
are close in mass to the lightest supersymmetric particle are well motivated
and offer a possibility for hidden, natural SUSY. Traditional searches are insensitive to these compressed mass spectra scenarios due to the very soft decay products.
A search for light top squarks close in mass to the LSP at the CMS detector in 19.7 fb$^{-1}$ of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 8 TeV is presented using events with one high p$_{T}$ jet and a large transverse energy imbalance. By using monojet events to search for Initial State Radiation produced in association with top squarks, sensitivity to very compressed spectra is attained.
Author
Robyn Lucas
(Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
