Searches for electroweak neutralino and chargino production in channels with Higgs, Z, and W bosons in pp collisions at 8 TeV
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) are presented based on the electroweak pair production of neutralinos and charginos, leading to decay channels with Higgs, Z, and W bosons and undetected lightest SUSY particles (LSPs). The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of about 19.5 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC. The main emphasis is neutralino pair production in which each neutralino decays either to a Higgs boson (h) and an LSP or to a Z boson and an LSP, leading to hh, hZ, and ZZ states with missing transverse energy (EmissT). A second aspect is chargino-neutralino pair production, leading to hW states with EmissT. The decays of a Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair, to a photon pair, and to final states with leptons are considered in conjunction with hadronic and leptonic decay modes of the Z and W bosons. No evidence is found for supersymmetric particles, and 95% confidence level upper limits are evaluated for the respective pair production cross sections and for neutralino and chargino mass values.
Date Issued
2014-11-21
Date Acceptance
2014-09-10
Citation
Physical Review D, 2014, 90 (9)
ISSN
1550-7998
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review D
Volume
90
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
© 2014 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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Grant Number
ST/J005665/1
ST/I005912/1
ST/J004901/1
ST/K003844/1 GRIDPP
ST/L00609X/1 GRIDPP
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Hadron colliders
Standard model
Supergauge transformations
Parton distributions
Measuring masses
Root-S=8 TEV
Supersymmetry
LHC
Particle
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Astronomical And Space Sciences
Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle And Plasma Physics
Quantum Physics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 092007