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Search for light scalar top-quark pair production in final states with two leptons with the ATLAS detector in √s =7 TeV proton–proton collisions

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • CERN
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Bonn
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • University of Geneva
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Centre d'Etudes de Saclay
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Milan
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Hampton University
  • Yale University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Brandeis University
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • University of Bern
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Boston University
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Texas at Dallas
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Bogazici University
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • SUNY Albany
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering

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Abstract

A search is presented for the pair production of light scalar top quarks in √s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. This analysis uses the full data sample collected during 2011 running that corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1. Light scalar top quarks are searched for in events with two opposite-sign leptons (e, μ), large missing transverse momentum and at least one jet in the final state. No excess over Standard Model expectations is found, and the results are interpreted under the assumption that the light scalar top decays to a b-quark in addition to an on-shell chargino whose decay occurs through a virtual W boson. If the chargino mass is 106 GeV, light scalar top-quark masses up to 130 GeV are excluded for neutralino masses below 70 GeV.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2237
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume72
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 30 2012

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