Search for supersymmetry with a compressed mass spectrum in events with a soft tau lepton, a highly energetic jet, and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) =13 TeVстатья
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Аннотация:The first search for supersymmetry in events with an experimental signature of one soft, hadronically decaying τ lepton, one energetic jet from initial-state radiation, and large transverse momentum imbalance is presented. These event signatures are consistent with direct or indirect production of scalar τ leptons (τ~) in supersymmetric models that exhibit coannihilation between the τ~ and the lightest neutralino (χ~01), and that could generate the observed relic density of dark matter. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 77.2 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at s√= 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016 and 2017. The results are interpreted in a supersymmetric scenario with a small mass difference (Δm) between the chargino (χ~±1) or next-to-lightest neutralino (χ~02), and the χ~01. The mass of the τ~ is assumed to be the average of the χ~±1 and χ~01 masses. The data are consistent with standard model background predictions. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the sum of the χ~±1, χ~02, and τ~ production cross sections for Δm(χ~±1,χ~01)= 50 GeV, resulting in a lower limit of 290 GeV on the mass of the χ~±1, which is the most stringent to date and surpasses the bounds from the LEP experiments.