Searches for new phenomena in events with jets and high values of the MT2M_{\mathrm{T2}} variable, including signatures with disappearing tracks, in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}

Collaboration
2019
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-SUS-19-005
Experiments:

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Abstract:
Searches for new phenomena are performed using events with jets and significant transverse momentum imbalance. In events with at least two jets, the transverse momentum imbalance is inferred through the MT2M_{\mathrm{T2}} variable. The results are based on a sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS detector during the LHC Run II (2016-2018) and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb1137~\mathrm{fb}^{-1} taken at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV13~\mathrm{TeV}. Two related searches are performed. The first is an inclusive search based on signal regions defined by the hadronic energy in the event, the jet multiplicity, the number of jets identified as originating from bottom quarks, and the value of MT2M_{\mathrm{T2}} for events with at least two jets, or the tranverse momentum of the jet for events with just one jet. The second is a search for disappearing tracks produced by new long-lived charged particles, decaying within the volume of the CMS tracking detector. No excess event yield is observed above the predicted standard model background, leading to exclusion limits on pair-produced gluinos and squarks in simplified models of RR-parity conserving supersymmetry. Mass limits as high as 2250 GeV2250~\mathrm{GeV}, 1770 GeV1770~\mathrm{GeV}, 1260 GeV1260~\mathrm{GeV} and 1225 GeV1225~\mathrm{GeV} are obtained from the inclusive MT2M_{\mathrm{T2}} search for gluinos, light-flavor squarks, bottom squarks and top squarks, respectively. The search for disappearing tracks extends the gluino mass limit to as much as 2460 GeV2460~\mathrm{GeV}, and the χ~10\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1} mass limit to as much as 2000 GeV2000~\mathrm{GeV}, in models where the gluino can decay with equal probability to χ~10\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1}, χ~1+\tilde{\chi}^{+}_{1}, and χ~1\tilde{\chi}^{-}_{1}, and the χ~1±\tilde{\chi}^{\pm}_{1} are long-lived.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Monte-Carlo
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • new physics: search for
  • jet: multiplicity
  • jet: momentum
  • gluino: mass: lower limit
  • supersymmetry: conservation law
  • charged particle: long-lived
  • energy: hadronic