Search for Weakly-Produced Supersymmetry in Same-Sign Di-Lepton Final State at $\sqrt{s}=8$ Tev With The atlas Detector

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Physics & Astronomy
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Gauginos
Supersymmetry
Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory
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2016-11-29T00:00:00-08:00
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A search for weakly-produced Chargino1, Neutralino2 supersymmetric particles decaying to two final state electrons or muons with the same electric charge is presented. The analysis is performed on 20.3\ifb~of integrated luminosity collected in 2012 with the Atlas Detector at the Large Hadron Collider, running at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV. Pairs of like-sign leptons are collected and discriminated against background using Boosted Decision Trees trained on compressed supersymmetric simplified models. No significant excesses above background expectations are observed. The 95% confidence limits are placed on Chargino1 Neutralino2 pairs decaying via W and Z bosons and via intermediate sleptons with two different assumptions on the relative slepton mass. In the most optimistic scenarios considered, Chargino1 below 410 GeV are excluded assuming a massless LSP. In the compressed scenario, Chargino1 $< 180$ GeV are excluded, with $\Delta$M Chargino1, LSP $>20$ GeV. Results from this analysis are also combined with those from a complementary search in the three lepton final state.

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Evelyn J. Thomson
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2015-01-01
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