Searches for top squark pair production with the CMS detector.

by Dr Pieter Everaerts

Tuesday 15 Nov 2016, 13:30 → 14:30 Europe/Stockholm

H422 (conference room, not for teaching) (Fysiska institutionen-Physics Department)

In 2015 the LHC started operating at a higher pp collision energy of 13 TeV. This opened a larger window to search for physics beyond the standard model,e.g. supersymmetry. A relatively light supersymmetric partner to the top quark could explain the observed value of the Higgs boson mass. In addition, such top squarks would decay into an invisible stable particle, which would be a dark matter candidate. Searches for top squark pair production, using 12.9 fb-1 of 13 TeV LHC data collected by the CMS experiment, will be presented. Future prospects and possible improvements will also be discussed.

Slides Everaerts.pdf