ATLAS Run 1 searches for direct pair production of third-generation squarks at the Large Hadron Collider

G. Aad (1) , S. Albrand (2) , J. Brown (2) , J. Collot (2) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (2) , P.A. Delsart (2) , C. Gabaldon (2) , M.H. Genest (2) , J.Y. Hostachy (2) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (2) , A. Lleres (2) , A. Lucotte (2) , F. Malek (2) , C. Monini (2) , J. Stark (2) , B. Trocmé (2) , M. Wu (2) , G. Rahal (3) , M.K. Ayoub (4) , A. Bassalat (4) , C. Becot (4) , S. Binet (4) , C. Bourdarios (4) , J.B. de Vivie De Regie (4) , D. Delgove (4) , L. Duflot (4) , M. Escalier (4) , L. Fayard (4) , D. Fournier (4) , E.L. Gkougkousis (4) , J.-F. Grivaz (4) , T. Guillemin (4) , F. Hariri (4) , S. Henrot-Versillé (4) , J. Hrivnac (4) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (4) , M. Kado (4) , A. Lounis (4) , N. Makovec (4) , N. Morange (4) , C. Nellist (4) , L. Poggioli (4) , P. Puzo (4) , A. Renaud (4) , D. Rousseau (4) , G. Rybkin (4) , A.C. Schaffer (4) , E. Scifo (4) , L. Serin (4) , S. Simion (4) , R. Tanaka (4) , H.L. Tran (4) , D. Zerwas (4) , Zhongkai Zhang (4) , Y. Zhao (4) , D. Boumediene (5) , Emmanuel Busato (5) , D. Calvet (5) , S. Calvet (5) , J. Donini (5) , E. Dubreuil (5) , G. Gilles (5) , Ph. Gris (5) , H. Liao (5) , R. Madar (5) , D. Pallin (5) , S.M. Romano Saez (5) , C. Santoni (5) , D. Simon (5) , Timothée Theveneaux-Pelzer (5) , F. Vazeille (5) , Z. Barnovska (6) , N. Berger (6) , M. Delmastro (6) , L. Di Ciaccio (6) , T.K.O. Doan (6) , S. Elles (6) , T. Hryn’ova (6) , S. Jézéquel (6) , I. Koletsou (6) , R. Lafaye (6) , J. Leveque (6) , N. Massol (6) , G. Sauvage (6) , E. Sauvan (6) , O. Simard (6) , T. Todorov (6) , I. Wingerter-Seez (6) , L. Alio (1) , M. Barbero (1) , Y. Coadou (1) , C. Diaconu (1) , Sara Diglio (1) , F. Djama (1) , O. Duccu (1) , L. Feligioni (1) , J. Gao (1) , G.D. Hallewell (1) , F. Hubaut (1) , S.J. Kahn (1) , E. B. F. G. Knoops (1) , E. Le Guirriec (1) , J. Liu (1) , K. Liu (1) , D. Madaffari (1) , K. Mochizuki (1) , E. Monnier (1) , S. Muanza (1) , Y. Nagai (1) , E. Nagy (1) , P. Pralavorio (1) , A. Rozanov (1) , T. Serre (1) , M. Talby (1) , R.E. Ticse Torres (1) , E. Tiouchichine (1) , S. Tisserant (1) , J. Toth (1) , F. Touchard (1) , L. Vacavant (1)

1 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
2 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
3 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
4 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
5 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
6 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules

This paper reviews and extends searches for the direct pair production of the scalar supersymmetric partners of the top and bottom quarks in proton--proton collisions collected by the ATLAS collaboration during the LHC Run 1. Most of the analyses use 20 fb$^{-1}$ of collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV, although in some case an additional 4.7 fb$^{-1}$ of collision data at $\sqrt{s}= 7$ TeV are used. New analyses are introduced to improve the sensitivity to specific regions of the model parameter space. Since no evidence of third-generation squarks is found, exclusion limits are derived by combining several analyses and are presented in both a simplified model framework, assuming simple decay chains, as well as within the context of more elaborate phenomenological supersymmetric models.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

G. Aad, S. Albrand, J. Brown, J. Collot, S. Crépé-Renaudin, et al.. ATLAS Run 1 searches for direct pair production of third-generation squarks at the Large Hadron Collider. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2015, 75, pp.510. ⟨10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3726-9⟩. ⟨in2p3-01169690⟩