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La Supersymtrie : rsultats de recherche au LHC Marie-Hlne Genest Sminaire du LPSC 8 dcembre 2011 Plan Part 0: Cookies and juice. Sadly already over (at least for me!). Part 1: What is Supersymmetry (SUSY) ? A


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La Supersymétrie : résultats de recherche au LHC

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Plan

  • Part 0: Cookies and juice. Sadly already over (at least for me!).
  • Part 1:

– What is Supersymmetry (SUSY) ?

  • A new symmetry
  • The predictions
  • The motivations behind introducing SUSY
  • Part 2:

– Looking for SUSY at the LHC

  • LHC / ATLAS
  • What do we expect?
  • What are the backgrounds?
  • Some search examples
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PART 1: PART 1: WHAT IS SUSY WHAT IS SUSY

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Symmetries

  • The Pointcaré group is full symmetry of special relativity ;

relativistic invariance is given by invariance under :

  • translations in space and time
  • rotations in space
  • boosts
  • In particle physics, one also has internal symmetries (symmetries

in an abstract space), which relate similar types of particles An example : the weak interaction is invariant under a rotation in the 'weak isospin' space. Such a rotation would for example convert an electron into its associated neutrino.

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A bit of history

  • In the 60's, many attempts to combine internal

symmetries with spacetime symmetries

  • But it was proven to be impossible in 1967 by

Coleman and Mandula : any such combination would

  • verconstrain the physics

« In a theory with non-trivial scattering in more than 1+1 dimensions, the only possible conserved quantities that transform as tensors under the Lorentz group are the energy-momentum Pμ , Lorentz transformations Mμν, and scalar quantum numbers (electric charge, lepton number,...). »

Can we add as many new symmetries as we want ?

But there was one loophole: the no-go theorem assumed that the new charges should have integer spin What about a spinorial charge Q ? This would not only be a way out, but the

  • nly possible extension of the Poincaré group

Another no-go with a loophole

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  • We are thus allowed to introduce supersymmetry, a new symmetry which relates

bosons and fermions through a spinorial operator, such that each known Standard Model particle gets associated to a new superparticle (or sparticle for short), denoted by a ~ above the particle symbol

The simplest SUSY model

∣fermion〉

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  • We are thus allowed to introduce supersymmetry, a new symmetry which relates

bosons and fermions through a spinorial operator, such that each known Standard Model particle gets associated to a new superparticle (or sparticle for short), denoted by a ~ above the particle symbol

The simplest SUSY model

Q itself has a spin ½

Somehow here, the phone booth analogy fails

Q∣fermion〉

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  • We are thus allowed to introduce supersymmetry, a new symmetry which relates

bosons and fermions through a spinorial operator, such that each known Standard Model particle gets associated to a new superparticle (or sparticle for short), denoted by a ~ above the particle symbol

The simplest SUSY model

Q∣fermion〉=∣boson〉

Q itself has a spin ½

Somehow here, the phone booth analogy fails

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  • We are thus allowed to introduce supersymmetry, a new symmetry which relates

bosons and fermions through a spinorial operator, such that each known Standard Model particle gets associated to a new superparticle (or sparticle for short), denoted by a ~ above the particle symbol

The simplest SUSY model

Q∣fermion〉=∣boson〉 Q∣boson〉=∣fermion〉

Q itself has a spin ½

Somehow here, the phone booth analogy fails

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The simplest SUSY model

[Pµ,Qa] = 0 Consequences:

  • Each state has a spartner with spin difference ± ½
  • Q commutes with P2 and with the gauge transformation
  • generators. The particle and its spartner therefore have:

– The same mass – The same electric charge – The same weak isospin – The same colour degrees of freedom

{Qa, ̄ Qb}=−2γab

μ Pμ

viable??? We will come back to this later viable??? We will come back to this later

In other words, the same interactions as their SM partner…

A SUSY transformation is the 'square root' of a spacetime translation !

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Supermultiplets

The particles are then grouped in supermultiplets:

  • The chiral ones which contain a fermion (spin 1/2) and a boson (spin 0)
  • The vectorial ones which contain a vector (spin 1) and a fermion (spin 1/2)

And, in a framework which includes gravity:

  • The gravitational one which contains a Rarita-Schwinger particle, the

gravitino (spin 3/2) and the graviton (spin 2). For each : equal number of fermionic and bosonic degrees of freedom

So we double the So we double the number of particles: is number of particles: is that all? that all?

We form a superfield !

Well, there is Well, there is a bit more to a bit more to say... say...

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Who wrote the first action invariant under supersymmetry, which contained only kinetic terms (massless, interactionless) for the scalar and fermion fields in 1974?

The culture corner

This is not a paid placement

Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino

Ok, but we may want a more complete model... hopefully done since !

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H

u d e ν

e

c s µ ν

µ

t b τ ν

τ

quarks leptons I II III Spin 1/2

W

Spin 1

Z γ g

Spin 0

Gauge bosons Higgs boson

In supersymmetry, each Standard Model particle has a supersymmetric partner, generically called a sparticle Nomenclature :

  • The spartner of a standard model

fermion is a sfermion

  • The spartner of a standard model

boson is a bosino

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H

u d e ν

e

c s µ ν

µ

t b τ ν

τ

quarks leptons I II III Spin 1/2

W

Spin 1

Z γ g

Spin 0

Gauge bosons Higgs boson

Spin 0

u ~

d ~

e ~ ν ~

e

c ~

s ~

µ ~

ν ~

µ

t ~

b ~

τ ~ ν ~

τ

squarks sleptons I II III Here, things are a bit more complicated...

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Five physical Higgses

In SUSY, one also needs two Higgs doublets:

  • Before the symmetry breaking:

Two complex Higgs doublets = 8 degrees of freedom

  • 3 d.o.f are ‘used’ to give mass to W+, W- and Z
  • 5 d.o.f. remain, which are the physical states:

– Two charged Higgses, H± – One neutral pseudoscalar Higgs, A – Two neutral scalar Higgses, h et H (definition: mh < mH)

〈H1

0〉=v1≠0

〈H 2

0〉=v2≠0

tan β= v2 v1

(v1

2 + v2 2)1/2 ~246 GeV

H1=( H1 H1

−)

H2=( H2

+

H2

0)

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The Higgs masses

One can compute relations between the different masses:

M W≤M

M Z≤M H 0≤M h≤M Z∣cos 2β∣ M h≤M A≤M H Radiative corrections:

M h

2=M

h

2(tree)+

3Mt

4

π

2v 2sin 2β

ln( M ̃

t

M t)≤ 130 GeV

M Mh

h < M

< MZ

Z ?!?

?!?

BUT LEP: BUT LEP: M Mh

h > 114.4 GeV

> 114.4 GeV

h is light h is light

MZ = 91.1876 ± 0.0021 GeV

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H

u d e ν

e

c s µ ν

µ

t b τ ν

τ

quarks leptons I II III Spin 1/2 Spin 1

A

±

H

Spin 0

h H

Higgs bosons

W Z γ g

Gauge bosons The Higgs sector is larger and h should be rather light

Spin 0

u ~

d ~

e ~ ν ~

e

c ~

s ~

µ ~

ν ~

µ

t ~

b ~

τ ~ ν ~

τ

squarks sleptons I II III

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Spin 0

u ~

d ~

e ~ ν ~

e

c ~

s ~

µ ~

ν ~

µ

t ~

b ~

τ ~ ν ~

τ

squarks sleptons I II III

H

u d e ν

e

c s µ ν

µ

t b τ ν

τ

quarks leptons I II III Spin 1/2 Spin 1

A

±

H

Spin 0

h H

Higgs bosons

W Z γ g

Gauge bosons

Here, things are a bit more complicated...

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Mass eigenstates

  • The spartners of the Higgses (Higgsinos) and of

the electroweak gauge bosons (gauginos) can actually mix and give the following mass eigenstates :

– Charged higgsinos + charged gauginos : charginos – Neutral higgsinos + neutral gauginos : neutralinos

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Spin 1/2 Spin 0

u ~

d ~

e ~ ν ~

e

c ~

s ~

µ ~

ν ~

µ

t ~

b ~

τ ~ ν ~

τ

squarks sleptons I II III

g ~

4

~ χ

3

~ χ

2

~ χ

1

~ χ

± 2

~ χ

± 1

~ χ

H

u d e ν

e

c s µ ν

µ

t b τ ν

τ

quarks leptons I II III Spin 1/2 Spin 1

A

±

H

Spin 0

h H

Higgs bosons

W Z γ g

Gauge bosons gluino

Neutralinos

Charginos

The complete picture

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Breaking supersy

  • No sparticle has ever been observed… yet

Their masses must be different from the ones of their SM partner!

mmetry

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Breaking supersy

  • No sparticle has ever been observed… yet

Their masses must be different from the ones of their SM partner!

mmetry

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Breaking supersy mmetry

  • Leave it free :

Introduction of ad-hoc terms explicitely breaking SUSY in the Lagrangian (manifestation of a more fundamental unknown theory)

  • > generic, but very many free parameters...
  • Or think of some scenarios in which SUSY is broken (in a gravity-

mediated way : SUGRA, through virtual gauge boson messengers : GMSB, ...)

  • > less free parameters, but not a 'generic' SUSY anymore...
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cMSSM (constrained)

  • 124 independant parameters - 18 from the SM

106 new parameters! 106 new parameters!

  • Hypotheses on the number of independant parameters at the

GUT scale:

  • Gaugino mass
  • Scalar mass
  • Scalar tri-linear coupling
  • Which leaves also:
  • The Higgs mixing parameter, tan β
  • The Higgs mass parameter sign: sign(µ)

m1/2 m0

A0

For simplicity, results shown today are shown in this scenario, but it's not the only one and LHC results in other SUSY scenarios are of course available

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R parity

  • Define:
  • R = -1 for sparticles
  • R = +1 for SM particles
  • If R parity is conserved:

– SUSY particles always produced in pair – The decay of SUSY particles always contain an odd number of SUSY particles – The lightest sparticle (LSP) is thus stable – The lightest neutralino is the LSP in many models

R=(−1)(L+3B+2J) where { L= leptonic number B= baryonic number J=spin

In some models, R parity is violated by adding terms which violate leptonic or baryonic number conservation, but I will disregard this option here.

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Why is SUSY considered attractive?

And it’s all physical motivations

As we have seen, SUSY was introduced as the only way spacetime and internal symmetries can be consistently combined It turned out it had many other interesting features which made its popularity grow, for example : 1- It can solve the mass hierarchy problem 2- It offers the possibility of gauge coupling unification 3- It predicts credible candidates to the dark matter

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1- The hierarchy problem

Say the SM is valid up to the Planck scale (where gravity kicks in)

But, the Higgs mass is given by a tree term mH, tree

2 + some radiative corrections :

In SUSY, add new loop correction with spartner: no divergence!

Λ Planck=√ ℏc G ~10

19 GeV

δmH

2 ~−Λ2 f f

δmH

2 ≈[( Λ2+m B 2 )−( Λ2+m F 2 )]=0

∣mB

2−mF 2∣ 1/2< O(1 TeV)

f

~

Exact SUSY: To avoid fine-tuning:

SM solution: postulate mH, tree

2 to be very nearly equal and opposite to the correction. This can mathematically be done:

Something like mH

2 = (100000000000000000100)2 – (100000000000000000000)2 ... But this seems awfully fine-tuned.

The sum of both terms should give O(100 GeV)2 !

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2- Gauge coupling unification

Without SUSY: With SUSY:

  • Renormalisation Group Equations describe the running of

the coupling constants with energy, with the slope depending

  • n the number and masses of the particles in the model
  • As an example:

Unification !

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3- Dark matter candidate

Without SUSY: With SUSY:

If R parity is conserved, SUSY can provide weakly interacting massive particles which are stable… Ideal Cold Dark Matter candidate! Ideal Cold Dark Matter candidate! Neutralinos...

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  • SUSY is a symmetry which has many interesting

features even if it must be broken

  • It predicts new particles yet to be discovered

Does it have anything to do with the real world ?

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Looking for SUSY

  • There are many ways to look for SUSY :

– Indirectly through precision measurement of quantities which could be affected by the presence of sparticles – Indirectly, if SUSY is the solution to dark matter, by looking for the presence of products of co-annihilation of neutralinos in the universe – Directly, if SUSY is the solution to dark matter, by searching for rare interactions of neutralinos from the galactic halo with detector material – Directly, by producing sparticles in colliders

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PART 2: PART 2: LOOKING FOR SUSY with the ATLAS detector at the LHC LOOKING FOR SUSY with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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  • proton-proton collisions
  • Circumference: 27 km
  • Center of mass energy (2010-2011): 7 TeV

ATLAS and the LHC

Proudly colliding protons* since 2009

*may contain some heavy ions

The CERN Large Hadron Collider

LHC protons protons Collisions Length : ~45 m Radius : ~12 m Weight : ~ 7000 tons

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Data accumulated in 2011

  • Excellent LHC performance
  • Very good detector efficiency:
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SUSY production

For example, with σprod=1 pb for 5000 pb-1 (=5 fb-1) of integrated luminosity  5000 events

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ATLAS

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Typical SUSY signature

  • Pair of gluinos/squarks produced by strong interactions
  • Their decays give high-pT jets and charginos/neutralinos
  • Charginos/neutralinos decays can give leptons and the decay chain stops when

the LSP is produced (R-parity conserving scenarios)

  • The pair of stable LSP produced escapes the detector

undetected leading to high transverse missing momentum

multi-Jets + n leptons + ET

miss

BUT: Standard Model backgrounds can also mimic this signature...

How could we find SUSY ?

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Possible backgrounds...

  • SUSY's nightmare : top pair production
  • Boson production : e.g. W+jets
  • A generic worry : QCD

– The biggest production at the LHC is just jets. It must be considered because jets can be misidentified as leptons or mismeasured (leading to fake leptons, fake missing momentum).

Jets...

Possible lepton(s)

Missing energy

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Searches

Compare the expected background to the data: is there an excess?

  • Trigger on the events; make sure the interesting physics

you're after is recorded !

  • Define signal regions; define selections which will enhance

the signal with respect to the background ('cuts on variables' : e.g. asking for at least one lepton in the event, at least one jet with pT>100 GeV, ...)

  • Define control regions ; cross check your background

expectations in regions orthogonal to your signal regions

  • Look at the results ; Compare the background expectations

in the signal region to the number of observed events : is there an excess?

  • If no excess is seen : what does it exclude in terms of

possible models ?

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The trigger system

What to keep and what not

  • Interaction rate : ~1 GHz
  • The trigger has to reduce

it to ~200-400 Hz

  • Three-level trigger to

decide what to keep

  • Compromise:

– low trigger thresholds (maximal coverage) – high thresholds (keep rate down)

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Signal regions : some useful variables

∆φ(jets,ET

miss)

Cutting on Δφ eliminates events in which ET

miss

is closely related to one of the leading jets (QCD) Effective mass meff Scalar sum of jets & leptons pT and ET

miss; it peaks at a value which

is strongly correlated with the mass of the pair of SUSY particles produced in the pp interaction Transverse mass mT Useful to remove BG in which a W decays in a lepton and a neutrino

jet ET

miss

Δφ

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An example : the 0-lepton channel

Select events with jets, missing transverse momentum and no lepton (veto e/µ)

arXiV:1109.6572 submitted to PLB

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Defining the signal regions

Depending on the signal, you can have 2, 3 or 4 jets...

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Defining the signal regions

Trigger requirements Reject the QCD BG Optimize for SUSY

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Main backgrounds

  • Z+jets: Z decays to νν
  • W+jets: W decays to τν or W->eν or µν but the lepton is missed
  • Top pair production: t->Wb with W as above
  • QCD multijets: mismeasured jet leading to missing energy or

heavy flavour decay

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Z+jets BG : a control region example

  • Take Z(→ll)+jets events (orthogonal to the signal region where a

veto is made on the leptons)

  • To mimic the Z(→νν)+jets BG in the signal region, remove the

leptons from the event and add them as missing energy instead

Data vs expectation Data / expectation Uncertainty on the expectation

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Other control regions

  • Select 1-lepton events with 30 < mT < 100 GeV (enriched in W

and top, where a W decays to a lepton and a neutrino)

  • Split the top from W by asking for no b-tagged jet (W) or at least
  • ne b-tagged jet (top)
  • Treat the lepton as a jet (for further processing)

W CR Top CR QCD CR

Reverse and tighten the cut: Δφ(jet, ET

miss)min < 0.2

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Results

95% CL limits on cross section · acceptance · efficiency: 22 fb, 25 fb, 429 fb, 27 fb and 17 fb

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Exclusion plot

2010

→ equal mass squarks and gluinos are excluded below 950 GeV

There are also searches in many other channels !

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The 1-lepton channel

Select events with jets, missing transverse momentum and exactly one lepton (e/µ)

arXiV:1109.6606 Submitted to PRD

µ

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Defining the signal region

Reduce the QCD BG further Suppresses W+jets and tt Optimize for SUSY

  • Exactly one lepton (e/µ) with pT>20 GeV

Again different jet multiplicity requirements

Again, various cuts to reduce the BG Based on the variables introduced before

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Main backgrounds: W+jets and tt

W control region: no b-jet Top control region: ≥ 1 b-jet

Again, a control region for each background, to cross check the expectations

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Results

Again, good agreement between data and expected background

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Exclusion plot

Exclude mgluino = Msquark < 875 GeV

Again, exclude some SUSY models

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Summary and outlook

  • Way more results than I could show today!
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Is SUSY almost dead ?

  • The searches so far have concentrated mostly on strongly interacting

sparticles because they are expected to be produced copiously if massive enough

  • Furthermore, the searches so far do not cover all possibilities in terms
  • f spectra, decays, ... more search channels under way...
  • With more data, we will be able to probe more effectively direct

neutralino/chargino production (with greater impact on what we can say about DM...) So, no, not yet.

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The quest continues The quest continues

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Charged Higgsinos + winos 1 and 2  charginos

̃ C1

±=cos φ± ̃

W ±−sinφ± ̃ H± ̃ C2

±=sinφ± ̃

W ±+cosφ± ̃ H±

m

̃

C1,2

2

=1 2 ( M 2

2+μ2+2mW 2 )∓√4(M 2 2+μ2+2mW 2 ) 2−(μM 2−mW 2 sin2β) 2

m ̃

C 2

2

m ̃

C1

2

<

Mass eigenstates

Neutral Higgsinos + bino + neutral wino  neutralinos In the basis :

M ̃

χ i

0=(

M 1 −M Z cos β sinθW M Z sin βsinθW M 2 M Z cos β cosθW −M Z sin βcosθW −M Zcos βsinθW M Z cos β sinθW μ M Zsin βsinθW −M Z sin βcosθW μ

)

( ̃

b, ̃ w3, ̃ h1

0, ̃

h2

0)

Matrix diagonalization  neutralino masses (m1<m2…)

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R parity violation

  • The R parity can be violated by adding terms which violate

leptonic or baryonic number conservation to the Lagrangian, while being invariant under SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) :

  • Different phenomenology expected if one takes as non zero λB (the

baryonic number violating coupling) or one of the other leptonic- number violating couplings…

  • However

However: one can’t pick and mix any violation terms at will: this could lead to rapid proton decay!

ΔW =λB

ijk ̄

ui ̄ d j ̄ d k+λ L

ijkQi L j̄dk+λe ijk Li Lj ̄ek+μL i Lih2

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More reasons to like SUSY

< 0 at ~1 TeV

“It is also needed in string theory to go from a 26d world containing tachyons to a 11d world without them”

  • A string theorist

Radiative electroweak symmetry breaking :

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Heavier sparticles?

Is there any reason to believe that the sparticles should be more Is there any reason to believe that the sparticles should be more massive or are we only trying to match the experimental facts massive or are we only trying to match the experimental facts and ‘denaturalizing’ the theory??? and ‘denaturalizing’ the theory??? All the SM particles would be massless without electroweak symmetry breaking W±,Z0,leptons and quarks all obtain their mass after the EWSB – photons and gluons remain massless due to the strong and EM gauge invariance All the sparticles can have a mass term without EWSB Squarks, sleptons and Higgs are allowed to have mass terms of the form m2|φ|2 Higgsinos and gauginos can also have masses because their left and right components can have the same interactions

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Object identification

  • Jets (anti-Kt, R=0.4): pT>20 GeV, |η|<2.8

– Reject events compatible with noise or cosmics – Remove if ∆R(jet,electron)<0.2

  • Electrons: pT>20 GeV, |η|<2.47

– Remove if ∆R(jet,electron)<0.4

  • Muons: pT>10 GeV, |η|<2.4

– Remove if ∆R(jet,muon)<0.4

  • Missing transverse momentum (ET

miss):

– sum over the transverse momentum of all jets (up to |η|<4.9), electrons, muons and all calorimeter clusters not associated to such objects

φ: azimuthal angle around the beam pipe η= -ln tan(θ/2) where θ is the polar angle

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QCD BG

Evaluated using the 'matrix method' which plays on the difference in isolation between the leptons in QCD events with respect to signal leptons

  • Loose control sample with isolation criteria relaxed with respect to

the tight SUSY selections

  • Define two categories: QCD leptons (Q) and non-QCD leptons (Q)

− ε is the probability that a loose lepton is also tight The quantities in red are measured: solve the equations and extract the number of QCD events

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1-lepton exclusion

Limits also provided for simplified models: 1-step gluino (squark) decay and x= ¼, ½ , ¾ where x= m 

±  −m 0  / m

 

squark,gluino−m 0  

Color coding: Cross section limit, Full line: Obs. Excl. limit for 100% BR to assumed decay mode

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Exclusion plot

2010

→ gluino and squark masses below 700 GeV and 875 GeV are excluded (for squark or gluino masses below 2 TeV) → limit at 1075 GeV for equal mass squarks and gluinos

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Quickly, more summer results

Di-photon searches

Signal region:

  • ≥ 2 photons with ET > 25 GeV
  • ET

miss > 125 GeV

Preliminary results

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Multijets

ArXiV:1110.2299, submitted to JHEP

On the arXiv since yesterday!

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b-jet with 1 lepton

A.Tua

ATLAS-CONF-2011-130

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b-jet with no lepton

ATLAS-CONF-2011-098

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What about CMS ?