Search for new physics in events with two low momentum opposite-sign leptons and missing transverse energy at s=13 TeV\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}

Collaboration
2017
21 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-SUS-16-048
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Abstract:
A search for new physics in events with low-momentum opposite-sign leptons and missing transverse momentum, using 35.9 fb135.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1} of integrated luminosity collected by CMS experiment at s=13 TeV\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}, is presented. The data observed are consistent with expectations from the standard model. The results are interpreted in terms of pair production of charginos and neutralinos (χ~1±\tilde{\chi}_1^{\pm}, χ~20\tilde{\chi}_2^{0}) with nearly degenerate masses, as expected in natural compressed higgsino models, and in terms of the pair production of top squarks for the case that the neutralino and the top squark have similar masses. At 95%95\% confidence level, χ~1±\tilde{\chi}_1^{\pm}/χ~20\tilde{\chi}_2^{0} are excluded for masses up to 230 GeV230~\mathrm{GeV} for a mass difference of 20 GeV20~\mathrm{GeV} with respect to the lightest neutralino, which is a region constrained so far by the LEP experiments only. An interpretation is also provided in terms of top squark (t~\tilde{t}) pair production processes with degenerate mass spectra and chargino-mediated decays. Masses of the t~\tilde{t} up to 450 GeV450~\mathrm{GeV} are excluded for a mass difference of 40 GeV40~\mathrm{GeV} with respect to the lightest neutralino.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • new physics: search for
  • top: pair production
  • chargino: pair production
  • momentum: low
  • transverse momentum: missing-energy
  • transverse energy: missing-energy
  • neutralino: mass: lower limit