Search for supersymmetry in events with a lepton, a photon, and large missing transverse energy in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

Journal article

Many models of new physics, including versions of supersymmetry (SUSY), predict production of events with low missing transverse energy, electroweak gauge bosons, and many energetic final-state particles. The stealth SUSY model yields this signature while conserving R-parity by means of a new hidden sector in which SUSY is approximately conserved. The results of a general search for new physics, with no requirement on missing transverse energy, in events with two photons and four or more hadronic jets are reported. The study is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions at s=7TeV corresponding to 4.96fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the CMS detector in 2011. Based on good agreement between the data and the standard model expectation, the data are used to determine model-independent cross-section limits and a limit on the squark mass in the framework of stealth SUSY. With this first study of its kind, squark masses less than 1430 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level. © 2012 CERN.

Authors: Chatrchyan, S; Khachatryan, V; Sirunyan, A; Tumasyan, A; Adam, W

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
• Volume: 719
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 42-61
• Publication date: 2011-06-01
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)093
• EISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• Keywords: Hadron-Hadron Scattering