A search for new phenomena in pp collisions at root s=13TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum and at least one jet using the alpha(T) variable

Abstract

A search for new phenomena is performed in final states containing one or more jets and an imbalance in transverse momentum in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The analysed data sample, recorded with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC, corresponds to an inte- grated luminosity of 2.3 fb − 1 . Several kinematic variables are employed to suppress the dominant background, mul- tijet production, as well as to discriminate between other standard model and new physics processes. The search pro- vides sensitivity to a broad range of new-physics models that yield a stable weakly interacting massive particle. The num- ber of observed candidate events is found to agree with the expected contributions from standard model processes, and the result is interpreted in the mass parameter space of four- teen simplified supersymmetric models that assume the pair production of gluinos or squarks and a range of decay modes. For models that assume gluino pair production, masses up to 1575 and 975 GeV are excluded for gluinos and neutralinos, respectively. For models involving the pair production of top squarks and compressed mass spectra, top squark masses up to 400 GeV are excluded.