Search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with tau leptons in √s=13TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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Abstract

A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with at least two hadronically decaying tau leptons is presented. The analysis uses a dataset of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb- 1, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No significant deviation from the expected Standard Model background is observed. Limits are derived in scenarios of [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] pair production and of [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] and [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] production in simplified models where the neutralinos and charginos decay solely via intermediate left-handed staus and tau sneutrinos, and the mass of the τ~ L state is set to be halfway between the masses of the [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] and the [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.]. Chargino masses up to 630 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level in the scenario of direct production of [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] for a massless [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.]. Common [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] and [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] masses up to 760 GeV are excluded in the case of production of [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] and [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] assuming a massless [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.]. Exclusion limits for additional benchmark scenarios with large and small mass-splitting between the [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] and the [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] are also studied by varying the τ~ L mass between the masses of the [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] and the [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.].

Original languageEnglish
Article number154
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume78
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2018

Funding

FundersFunder number
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Australian Research Council
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
CEA-DRF
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Région Auvergne
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Israel Science Foundation
Wallenberg Foundation
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
Generalitat de Catalunya
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft
Austrian Science Fund
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
MSMT
MSSR
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Czech Republic
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Canarie
Ontario Innovation Trust
MIZŠ
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Neurosurgical Research Foundation
MESTD
U.S. Department of Energy
EU-ESF
RGC
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Israeli Centers for Research Excellence
Biomedical Research Foundation
COLCIEN-CIAS
MES of Russia
National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
Institutul de Fizică Atomică
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Canada Council for the Arts
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
VSC CR
Glycemic Index Foundation
CRC Health Group
Compute Canada
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation
MNE
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
Minerva Foundation
European Research Council
European Regional Development Fund
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
IRFU
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Fondation Partager le Savoir
National Research Council Canada
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
Horizon 2020
Royal Society and Lever-hulme Trust, UK
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China
DNSRCIN2P3-CNRS
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/P002439/1, PP/E000452/1, ST/N000447/1, ST/H001158/1, 1653101, ST/N000331/1, ST/H001158/2, GRIDPP, ST/N000277/1, 1668509, ST/R002444/1
National Science Foundation1624739

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