Search for supersymmetry in events with opposite-sign dileptons and missing transverse energy using an artificial neural network

In this paper, a search for supersymmetry (SUSY) is presented in events with two opposite-sign isolated leptons in the final state, accompanied by hadronic jets and missing transverse energy. An artificial neural network is employed to discriminate possible SUSY signals from a standard model backgro...

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Autores: Chatrchyan, S., Brochero Cifuentes, J. A., Cabrillo, I. J., Calderon, Alicia, Chuang, S. H., Duarte Campderros, J., Felcini, Marta, Fernández-García, Marcos, Gómez, Gervasio, González Sánchez, J., Graziano, A., Jorda, C., López Virto, A., Marco, Jesús, Marco, Rafael, Martínez-Rivero, Celso, Matorras, Francisco, Muñoz Sánchez, F. J., Rodrigo Anoro, Teresa, Rodríguez Marrero, Ana Y., Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto, Scodellaro, Luca, Vila, Iván, Vilar Cortabitarte, R., CMS Collaboration
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/109703
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/109703
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ddc:530
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Sumario:In this paper, a search for supersymmetry (SUSY) is presented in events with two opposite-sign isolated leptons in the final state, accompanied by hadronic jets and missing transverse energy. An artificial neural network is employed to discriminate possible SUSY signals from a standard model background. The analysis uses a data sample collected with the CMS detector during the 2011 LHC run, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.98 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at the center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Compared to other CMS analyses, this one uses relaxed criteria on missing transverse energy (EÌ̧T>40 GeV) and total hadronic transverse energy (HT>120 GeV), thus probing different regions of parameter space. Agreement is found between standard model expectation and observations, yielding limits in the context of the constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model and on a set of simplified models. © 2013 CERN.