Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
(2017) Physical review. D, Particles and fields — Vol. D95, p. 12009 (2017)
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Wertz, Sébastien 
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- Results are reported from a search for R-parity violating supersymmetry in proton-proton collision events collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 17.6 inverse femtobarns. This search assumes a minimal flavor violating model in which the lightest supersymmetric particle is a long-lived neutralino or gluino, leading to a signal with jets emanating from displaced vertices. In a sample of events with two displaced vertices, no excess yield above the expectation from standard model processes is observed, and limits are placed on the pair production cross section as a function of mass and lifetime of the neutralino or gluino. At 95% confidence level, the analysis excludes cross sections above approximately 1 fb for neutralinos or gluinos with mass between 400 and 1500 GeV and mean proper decay length between 1 and 30 mm. Gluino masses are excluded below 1 and 1.3 TeV for mean proper decay lengths of 300 micrometers and 1 mm, respectively, and below 1.4 TeV for the range 2-30 mm. The results are also applicable to other models in which long-lived particles decay into multijet final states.
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CMS, Bakhshiansohi, H., Beluffi, C., Bondu, O., Brochet, S., Bruno, G., Caudron, A., de Visscher, S., Delaere, C., Delcourt, M., Forthomme, L., François, B., Giammanco, A., Jafari, A., Jez, P., Komm, M., Lemaitre, V., Magitteri, A., Mertens, A., et al. (2017). Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. Physical review. D, Particles and fields, D95, 12009. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.012009 (Original work published 2017)