Search for Supersymmetry at the LHC in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy

Authors

CMS Collaboration
S. Chatrchyan, Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
S. Bose, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Jamila Butt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Daniel R. Claes, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Aaron Dominguez, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Michael Eads, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
P. Jindal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
J. Keller, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
T. Kelly, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ilya Kravchenko, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
J. Lazo-Flores, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
H. Malbouisson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sudhir Malik, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Gregory Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2011

Citation

Physical Review Letters 107, 221804 (2011); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.221804

Abstract

A search for events with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in a data sample of pp collisions collected at √s = 7 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.14 fb^-1. In this search, a kinematic variable α_T is used as the main discriminator between events with genuine and misreconstructed missing transverse energy. No excess of events over the standard model expectation is found. Exclusion limits in the parameter space of the constrained minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model are set. In this model, squark masses below 1.1 TeV are excluded at 95% C.L. Gluino masses below 1.1 TeV are also ruled out at 95% C.L. for values of the universal scalar mass parameter below 500 GeV.