Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.041

Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

iThemba Labs
Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Cadi Ayyad University
Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science Innovation and Research (MAScIR)
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
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
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
AGH University of Krakow
United States Department of Energy
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
Lund University
The University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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
National Technical University of Athens
University of Udine

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Abstract

A search has been performed for the experimental signature of an isolated photon with high transverse momentum, at least one jet identified as originating from a bottom quark, and high missing transverse momentum. Such a final state may originate from supersymmetric models with gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking in events in which one of a pair of higgsino-like neutralinos decays into a photon and a gravitino while the other decays into a Higgs boson and a gravitino. The search is performed using the full dataset of 7 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb⁻¹. A total of 7 candidate events are observed while 7.5±2.2 events are expected from the Standard Model background. The results of the search are interpreted in the context of general gauge mediation to exclude certain regions of a benchmark plane for higgsino-like neutralino production.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	261-279
Number of pages	19
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	719
Issue number	4-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.041
State	Published - Feb 26 2013

Keywords

Gauge mediation
Higgs boson
Supersymmetry

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ATLAS Collaboration 2013, 'Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol. 719, no. 4-5, pp. 261-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.041

Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / ATLAS Collaboration.
In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. 719, No. 4-5, 26.02.2013, p. 261-279.

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Search for supersymmetry in events with photons, bottom quarks, and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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