Speaker
Marek Adam Niedziela
(Hamburg University (DE))
Description
Searches for new physics in events with multiple jets and large missing transverse momentum are sensitive to a broad set of R-parity conserving SUSY models at the LHC. These searches rely on having an accurate prediction for the QCD background, especially when probing regions of the models with compressed spectra and/or regions featuring the production of light-flavor jets. A method for predicting the QCD background, called rebalance and smear, has been developed to model the multi-jet background for such searches for supersymmetry. A CMS search that makes use the rebalance and smear method in analyzing proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV is presented, and constraints on various regions of the MSSM are discussed.
Primary author
Marek Adam Niedziela
(Hamburg University (DE))
