BEACH 2016: XII International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions

Search for Scalar Top-Quark Production in the all Hadronic Channel at 13 TeV

Not scheduled

15m

Research Hall Room 163 (George Mason University)

Speaker

Scarlet Rachel Norberg (University of Puerto Rico Department of Physics (PR))

Description

A search for top squarks in events with jets and missing transverse momentum is presented. The data were collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb$^{−1}$. Events are categorized by the properties of reconstructed jets, the presence of top quark candidates, and missing transverse momentum. No statistically significant excess of events above the expected contribution from standard model processes is observed. Exclusion limits are set in the context of simplified models of top squark pair production.

Summary

A search for top squarks in events with jets and missing transverse momentum is presented. The data were collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb$^{−1}$. Events are categorized by the properties of reconstructed jets, the presence of top quark candidates, and missing transverse momentum. No statistically significant excess of events above the expected contribution from standard model processes is observed. Exclusion limits are set in the context of simplified models of top squark pair production.