Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Z boson, b-jets and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s)=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector - IN2P3 - Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
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Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Z boson, b-jets and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s)=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad (1) , S. Abdel Khalek (2) , E. Augé (2) , A. Bassalat (2) , C. Becot (2) , S. Binet (2) , C. Bourdarios (2) , D. Charfeddine (2) , C. de La Taille (2) , J.B. de Vivie de Regie (2) , L. Duflot (2) , M. Escalier (2) , L. Fayard (2) , D. Fournier (2) , J.-F. Grivaz (2) , T. Guillemin (2) , S. Henrot-Versillé (2) , J. Hrivnac (2) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (2) , J. Idarraga (2) , M. Kado (2) , Y. Li (2) , A. Lounis (2) , N. Makovec (2) , P. Matricon (2) , L. Poggioli (2) , P. Puzo (2) , A. Renaud (2) , D. Rousseau (2) , G. Rybkin (2) , A.C. Schaffer (2) , E. Scifo (2) , L. Serin (2) , S. Simion (2) , R. Tanaka (2) , H.L. Tran (2) , D. Zerwas (2) , Zhiqing Zhang (2) , G. Rahal (3) , S. Albrand (4) , J. Brown (4) , J. Collot (4) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (4) , B. Dechenaux (4) , P.A. Delsart (4) , C. Gabaldon (4) , M.H. Genest (4) , J.Y. Hostachy (4) , B.T. Le (4) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (4) , A. Lleres (4) , A. Lucotte (4) , F. Malek (4) , C. Monini (4) , J. Stark (4) , X. Sun (4) , B. Trocmé (4) , M. Wu (4) , D. Boumediene (5) , Emmanuel Busato (5) , D. Calvet (5) , S. Calvet (5) , J. Donini (5) , E. Dubreuil (5) , N. Ghodbane (5) , G. Gilles (5) , Ph. Gris (5) , C. Guicheney (5) , H. Liao (5) , D. Pallin (5) , Daniela Paredes Hernández (5) , F. Podlyski (5) , C. Santoni (5) , Timothée Theveneaux-Pelzer (5) , Loïc Valery (5) , F. Vazeille (5) , Z. Barnovska (6) , N. Berger (6) , M. Delmastro (6) , L. Di Ciaccio (6) , T.K.O. Doan (6) , S. Elles (6) , C. Goy (6) , T. Hryn'Ova (6) , S. Jézéquel (6) , H. Keoshkerian (6) , R. Lafaye (6) , J. Leveque (6) , V.P. Lombardo (6) , N. Massol (6) , H. Przysiezniak (6) , G. Sauvage (6) , E. Sauvan (6) , M. Schwoerer (6) , T. Todorov (6) , I. Wingerter-Seez (6) , L. Alio (1) , M. Barbero (1) , C. Bertella (1) , J. C. Clémens (1) , Y. Coadou (1) , Sara Diglio (1) , F. Djama (1) , L. Feligioni (1) , D. Hoffmann (1) , F. Hubaut (1) , E. B. F. G. Knoops (1) , E. Le Guirriec (1) , B. Li (1) , D. Madaffari (1) , K. Mochizuki (1) , E. Monnier (1) , Y. Nagai (1) , J. Odier (1) , P. Pralavorio (1) , A. Rozanov (1) , T. Serre (1) , M. Talby (1) , N. Tannoury (1) , E. Tiouchichine (1) , S. Tisserant (1) , J. Toth (1) , F. Touchard (1) , M. Ughetto (1) , L. Vacavant (1) , I. Koletsou (6) , O. Simard (6)
G. Aad
E. Augé
D. Rousseau
D. Zerwas
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Zhiqing Zhang
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N. Berger
C. Goy
T. Hryn'Ova
Y. Coadou
E. Monnier
J. Odier
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Résumé

A search is presented for direct top squark pair production using events with at least two leptons including a same-flavour opposite-sign pair with invariant mass consistent with the $Z$ boson mass, jets tagged as originating from $b$-quarks and missing transverse momentum. The analysis is performed with proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$. No excess beyond the Standard Model expectation is observed. Interpretations of the results are provided in models based on the direct pair production of the heavier top squark state ($\tilde{t}_2$) followed by the decay to the lighter top squark state ($\tilde{t}_1$) via $\tilde{t}_2 \to Z\tilde{t}_1$, and for $\tilde{t}_1$ pair production in natural gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenarios where the neutralino ($\tilde{\chi}^0_1$) is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and decays producing a $Z$ boson and a gravitino ($\tilde{G}$) via the $\tilde{\chi}^0_1 \to Z\tilde{G}$ process.

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in2p3-00962437 , version 1 (21-03-2014)

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G. Aad, S. Abdel Khalek, E. Augé, A. Bassalat, C. Becot, et al.. Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Z boson, b-jets and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s)=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2014, 74, pp.2883. ⟨10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2883-6⟩. ⟨in2p3-00962437⟩
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