Search for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad (1) , M.K. Ayoub (2) , A. Bassalat (2) , C. Bécot (2) , S. Binet (2) , C. Bourdarios (2) , D. Delgove (2) , J-B. de Vivie De Regie (2) , L. Duflot (2) , M. Escalier (2) , L. Fayard (2) , D. Fournier (2) , E.L. Gkougkousis (2) , J-F. Grivaz (2) , T. Guillemin (2) , F. Hariri (2) , S. Henrot-Versille (2) , J. Hrivnac (2) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (2) , M. Kado (2) , A. Lounis (2) , N. Makovec (2) , N. Morange (2) , C. Nellist (2) , P. Petroff (2) , L. Poggioli (2) , P. Puzo (2) , A. Renaud (2) , D. Rousseau (2) , G. Rybkin (2) , A.C. Schaffer (2) , E. Scifo (2) , L. Serin (2) , S. Simion (2) , R. Tanaka (2) , D. Zerwas (2) , Zhongkai Zhang (2) , Y. Zhao (2) , G. Rahal (3) , Z. Barnovska (4) , N. Berger (4) , M. Delmastro (4) , L. Di Ciaccio (4) , S. Elles (4) , C. Goy (4) , T. Hryn’ova (4) , S. Jézéquel (4) , I. Koletsou (4) , R. Lafaye (4) , J. Leveque (4) , N. Massol (4) , P. Mastrandrea , G. Sauvage (4) , E. Sauvan (1) , O. Simard (4) , T. Todorov (4) , E. Yatsenko (4) , I. Wingerter-Seez (4) , S. Albrand (5) , J. Collot (5) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (5) , P.A. Delsart (5) , C. Gabaldon (5) , M.H. Genest (5) , J.Y. Hostachy (5) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (5) , A. Lleres (5) , A. Lucotte (5) , F. Malek (5) , C. Monini (5) , J. Stark (5) , B. Trocmé (5) , M. Wu (5) , D. Boumediene (6) , E. Busato (6) , D. Calvet (6) , S. Calvet (6) , J. Donini (6) , E. Dubreuil (6) , G. Gilles (6) , Ph. Gris (6) , H. Liao (6) , R. Madar (6) , D. Pallin (6) , S.M. Romano Saez (6) , C. Santoni (6) , D. Simon (6) , T. Theveneaux-Pelzer (6) , F. Vazeille (6) , L. Alio (1) , M. Barbero (1) , Y. Coadou (1) , C. Diaconu (1) , Sara Diglio (1) , F. Djama (1) , O. Duccu (7, 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 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
3 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
4 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
5 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
6 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
7 NIPNE - Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering

The ATLAS experiment has performed extensive searches for the electroweak production of charginos, neutralinos and staus. This article summarizes and extends the search for electroweak supersymmetry with new analyses targeting scenarios not covered by previously published searches. New searches use vector-boson fusion production, initial-state radiation jets, and low-momentum lepton final states, as well as multivariate analysis techniques to improve the sensitivity to scenarios with small mass splittings and low-production cross-sections. Results are based on 20 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess beyond Standard Model expectations is observed. The new and existing searches are combined and interpreted in terms of 95% confidence-level exclusion limits in simplified models, where a single production process and decay mode is assumed, as well as within phenomenological supersymmetric models.

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

G. Aad, M.K. Ayoub, A. Bassalat, C. Bécot, S. Binet, et al.. Search for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 2016, 93, pp.052002. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.93.052002⟩. ⟨in2p3-01205215⟩