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用LHC上的ATLAS探测器在压缩质谱中寻找超对称粒子的电弱产生

Search for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in compressed mass spectra with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Eric Ballabene

摘要:

提出了两种通过电弱相互作用寻找超对称粒子产生的分析方法:电荷偶子搜索法,目标是电荷偶子衰变为W玻色子和中性伴子的成对产生;位移径迹搜索法,目标是希格斯玻色子衰变为π介子的带电径迹。这些搜索的目标是压缩的相空间,其中次轻和最轻的超对称粒子之间的质量差相对较小。搜索使用质子-质子碰撞数据收集在一个中心的质量能量为13 TeV的ATLAS探测器在大型强子对撞机。在电荷伴子搜寻中,电荷伴子与中性伴子的目标质量差接近W玻色子的质量。在这样的相空间中,电荷对的产生在运动学上类似于WW背景,使得电荷信号在实验上难以与WW背景区分开。采用机器学习技术将超对称信号从背景中分离出来。结果排除电荷子质量高达约140 GeV的质量分裂下降到约100 GeV,取代以前的结果在特别有趣的地区,电荷子对生产可能隐藏在后面的外观相似的WW背景。在位移径迹搜索中,产生的超微粒子和最轻的中性伴子之间的质量差下降到0.3 GeV。实验签名具有低动量带电轨道,其原点偏离碰撞点。结果表明,分析的灵敏度,以排除不同的假设higgsino质量高达175 GeV,如果没有多余的数据中观察到的。对于较低的质量,较大的信号横截面允许对于不同的质量分裂场景实现较高的显著性。所有这些信号假说都没有被任何现有的LHC数据分析所探测。

英文摘要:

Two analyses searching for the production of supersymmetric particles through the electroweak interaction are presented: the chargino search, targeting the pair production of charginos decaying into W bosons and neutralinos, and the displaced track search, looking for charged tracks arising from the decays of higgsinos into pions. These searches target compressed phase spaces, where the mass difference between the next-to-lightest and lightest supersymmetric particle is relatively small. The searches use proton-proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. In the chargino search, the targeted mass difference between charginos and neutralinos is close to the mass of the W boson. In such phase space, the chargino pair production is kinematically similar to the WW background, making the chargino signal experimentally challenging to be discriminated from the WW background. Machine learning techniques are adopted to separate the supersymmetric signal from the backgrounds. The results exclude chargino masses up to about 140 GeV for mass splittings down to about 100 GeV, superseding the previous results in particularly interesting regions where the chargino pair production could have hidden behind the looking-alike WW background. In the displaced track search, the mass difference between the produced sparticles and the lightest neutralinos goes down to 0.3 GeV. The experimental signature has a low momentum charged track with an origin displaced from the collision point. The results show that the analysis has the sensitivity to exclude different hypotheses for higgsino masses up to 175 GeV if no excess is observed in data. For lower masses, the larger signal cross-section allows to achieve higher significance for different mass splitting scenarios. All these signal hypotheses have not been probed by any existing analysis of LHC data.

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