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Search for supersymmetry in a three lepton plus jets signature

Posted on:2009-04-03Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:Southern Methodist UniversityCandidate:Zarzhitsky, PavelFull Text:PDF
GTID:1440390005460180Subject:Physics
Abstract/Summary:
We present a search for three lepton plus jets supersymmetric signal at ATLAS detector, LHC, at s = 14 TeV. The signal signature must contain three isolated leptons with pT's above 5 GeV and two jets with pT's above 40 GeV. The leptons must form a same flavor opposite charge pair. The analysis was done using the Monte Carlo data equivalent to 1 fb-1 of the real data. tt, WZ, Zbb and Z+jets processes were considered as backgrounds. The signal extraction from the backgrounds was done using optimization cuts in five variables: pT's of leptons, HT and E /T . It was shown that the statistical significance rho = SS+B = 6.3 for 1 fb-1. This allows an early SUSY discovery. The discovery limit rho = 5 can be reached at 650 pb-1. The effect of main jet calibration uncertainty determined to be small.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jets, Three
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