Search for supersymmetry in final states with two or three soft leptons and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV

A search for supersymmetry in events with two or three low-momentum leptons and missing transverse momentum is performed. The search uses proton-proton collisions at

\sqrt{s}

= 13 TeV collected in the three-year period 2016–2018 by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 137 fb

^{−1}

. The data are found to be in agreement with expectations from standard model processes. The results are interpreted in terms of electroweakino and top squark pair production with a small mass difference between the produced supersymmetric particles and the lightest neutralino. For the electroweakino interpretation, two simplified models are used, a wino-bino model and a higgsino model. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are set on {\overset{\sim }{\upchi}}_2^0/{\overset{\sim }{\upchi}}_1^{\pm } masses up to 275 GeV for a mass difference of 10 GeV in the wino-bino case, and up to 205(150) GeV for a mass difference of 7.5 (3) GeV in the higgsino case. The results for the higgsino are further interpreted using a phenomenological minimal supersymmetric standard model, excluding the higgsino mass parameter μ up to 180 GeV with the bino mass parameter M

_{1}

at 800 GeV. In the top squark interpretation, exclusion limits are set at top squark masses up to 540 GeV for four-body top squark decays and up to 480 GeV for chargino-mediated decays with a mass difference of 30 GeV.[graphic not available: see fulltext]

Note:

Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/SUS-18-004 (CMS Public Pages)

Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Supersymmetry
p p: colliding beams
transverse momentum: missing-energy
p p: scattering
hadron hadron: scattering
squark: mass
squark: decay
stop: mass: lower limit
bino: mass

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