Speaker
Gheorghe Lungu
(Rockefeller University)
Description
We present a search for supersymmetry (SUSY) in the fully hadronic final state with the CMS detector at the LHC.
This final state contains at least two jets and a significant transverse energy imbalance due to neutralinos escaping detection.
The background to all-hadronic signature arise from QCD multijet production, ttbar and electroweak boson+jet production.
These background can be estimated by utilizing a data-driven approach using events thus enabling a possible discovery of SUSY in the
early physics data. In addition to the generic search, we also present an analysis which utilizes a new quantity, alpha_T, constructed
exclusively from the transverse energies of the jets to effectively eliminate the QCD background.
Author
Gheorghe Lungu
(Rockefeller University)
