Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two tau leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

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Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two tau leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
AGH University of Krakow
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of Liverpool
University of Belgrade
University of Göttingen
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lund University
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Université Grenoble Alpes
Instituto de Física La Plata
CERN
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
The University of Chicago
Columbia University
University of Sussex

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A search for direct pair production of the supersymmetric partner of the top quark, decaying via a scalar tau to a nearly massless gravitino, has been performed using 20 fb (Formula presented.) of proton–proton collision data at (Formula presented.). The data were collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012. Top squark candidates are searched for in events with either two hadronically decaying tau leptons, one hadronically decaying tau and one light lepton, or two light leptons. No significant excess over the Standard Model expectation is found. Exclusion limits at (Formula presented.) confidence level are set as a function of the top squark and scalar tau masses. Depending on the scalar tau mass, ranging from the (Formula presented.) LEP limit to the top squark mass, lower limits between 490 and (Formula presented.) are placed on the top squark mass within the model considered.

Original language	English
Article number	81
Pages (from-to)	1-30
Number of pages	30
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	76
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3897-z
State	Published - Feb 1 2016

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Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two tau leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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