Searches for electroweak production of charginos, neutralinos, and sleptons decaying to leptons and W, Z, and Higgs bosons in pp collisions at 8 TeV

• Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Particles and fields, 2014-09, Vol.74 (9), p.3036-42, Article 3036
• Main Authors: Suarez Gonzalez, J., Bansal, S., Cornelis, T., De Wolf, E. A., Maes, M., De Lentdecker, G., Selvaggi, M., Fonseca De Souza, S., Zhang, L., Voutilainen, M., Tuuva, T., Titov, M., Sordini, V., Vander Donckt, M., Merschmeyer, M., Reithler, H., Kuessel, Y., Kleinwort, C., Lutz, B., Haller, J., Hoffmann, M., Vanelderen, L., Hartmann, F., Ulrich, R., Wagner-Kuhr, J., Foudas, C., Trocsanyi, Z. L., Kumar, Ashok, Kailas, S., Kumar, S., Bakhshiansohi, H., Perrotta, A., Lo Vetere, M., Gennai, S., Menasce, D., Bilei, G. M., Messineo, A., Arcidiacono, R., Costa, M., Degano, A., Choi, M., Casimiro Linares, E., Boimska, B., Frueboes, T., Smirnov, I., Rusakov, S. V., Klyukhin, V., Savrin, V., Cuevas, J., Marco, J., Marco, R., Benhabib, L., Bondu, O., Lecoq, P., Spiga, D., Treille, D., Bortignon, P., Casal, B., Grab, C., Lei, Y. J., Dozen, C., Ozdemir, K., Meng, Z., Brew, C., Tomalin, I. R., Fulcher, J., Lane, R., Malik, S., Vazquez Acosta, M., Pilot, J., Danielson, T., Franco Sevilla, M., Ferguson, T., Freeman, J., Mrenna, S., Yang, F., Das, S., Hagopian, V., Johnson, K. F., Evdokimov, O., Kurt, P., Ogul, H., Ivanov, A., Lu, Y., Pedro, K., Barbieri, R., Summers, D., Claes, D. R., Godshalk, A., Anastassov, A., Pollack, B., Jung, K., Zablocki, J., Padley, B. P., Contreras-Campana, E., Thomassen, P., Roe, J., Gurrola, A., Francis, B., Perry, T.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Astronomy; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Bosons; Collisions; Collisions (Nuclear physics); Decay; Detectors; Elementary Particles; Fermions; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Higgs bosons; High Energy Physics - Experiment; Leptons; Luminosity; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Physics; Particle collisions; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Protons; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Regular - Experimental Physics; Regular Article - Experimental Physics; Searching; Signatures; String Theory; Texts
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052; 1434-6052
• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3036-7

Searches for the direct electroweak production of supersymmetric charginos, neutralinos, and sleptons in a variety of signatures with leptons and W , Z , and Higgs bosons are presented. Results are based on a sample of proton-proton collision data collected at center-of-mass energy s = 8 TeV with the CMS detector in 2012, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5  fb -1 . The observed event rates are in agreement with expectations from the standard model. These results probe charginos and neutralinos with masses up to 720  GeV , and sleptons up to 260  GeV , depending on the model details.