Search for bottom-squark pair production with the ATLAS detector in final states containing Higgs bosons, b-jets and missing transverse momentum

• Autores: Alonso, Francisco; Arduh, Francisco Anuar; Dova, María Teresa; Hoya, Joaquín; Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel; Orellana, Gonzalo Enrique; Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo; The ATLAS Collaboration
• Año de publicación: 2019
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Ciencias Exactas; Física; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Supersymmetry
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de La Plata

The result of a search for the pair production of the lightest supersymmetric partner of the bottom quark (b~₁) using 139 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton data collected at √s = 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector is reported. In the supersymmetric scenarios considered both of the bottom-squarks decay into a b-quark and the second-lightest neutralino, b~₁ → b + χ~⁰₂. Each χ~⁰₂ is assumed to subsequently decay with 100% branching ratio into a Higgs boson (h) like the one in the Standard Model and the lightest neutralino: χ~⁰₂ → h + χ~⁰₁. The χ~⁰₁ is assumed to be the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) and is stable. Two signal mass configurations are targeted: the first has a constant LSP mass of 60 GeV, and the second has a constant mass difference between the χ~⁰₂ and χ~⁰₁ of 130 GeV. The final states considered contain no charged leptons, three or more b-jets, and large missing transverse momentum. No significant excess of events over the Standard Model background expectation is observed in any of the signal regions considered. Limits at the 95% confidence level are placed in the supersymmetric models considered, and bottom-squarks with mass up to 1.5 TeV are excluded.
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