Abstract
A search for physics beyond the standard model in final states with at least one photon, large transverse momentum imbalance, and large total transverse event activity is presented. Such topologies can be produced in gauge-mediated supersymmetry models in which pair-produced gluinos or squarks decay to photons and gravitinos via short-lived neutralinos. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016. No significant excess of events above the expected standard model background is observed. The data are interpreted in simplified models of gluino and squark pair production, in which gluinos or squarks decay via neutralinos to photons. Gluino masses of up to 1.50-2.00 TeV and squark masses up to 1.30-1.65 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level, depending on the neutralino mass and branching fraction.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 142 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2017 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017, The Author(s).
Funding
CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR and RAEP (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI and FEDER (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (U.S.A.). Open Access, Copyright CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COL-CIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland);
| Funders | Funder number |
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| COL-CIENCIAS | |
| CPAN | |
| ERC IUT | |
| EU-ESF | |
| FRIA-Belgium | |
| IWT-Belgium | |
| LNS | |
| MESTD | |
| MON | |
| MSES | |
| MSHE | |
| MoER | |
| PCTI | |
| RAEP | |
| STAR | |
| Swiss Funding Agencies | |
| TUBITAK | |
| UASLP-FAI | |
| National Science Foundation | 1606321, 1151640, 1506168, 1506130, 1508869 |
| National Institutes of Health | |
| U.S. Department of Energy | |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | |
| Welch Foundation | C-1845 |
| Hispanics in Philanthropy | |
| Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung | |
| Qatar National Research Fund | |
| Secretaría de Educación Pública | |
| Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu | |
| Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | |
| Louisiana Academy of Sciences | |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology | |
| CERN | |
| Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics | |
| Cosmetic Surgery Foundation | |
| Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology | |
| Science and Technology Facilities Council | PP/E000479/1, GRIDPP, ST/H000925/1 |
| European Commission | |
| European Research Council | |
| Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India | |
| Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India | |
| Ministry of Education - Singapore | |
| Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India | |
| Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland | |
| Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft | |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
| Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo | |
| National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
| Research Promotion Foundation | |
| Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy | |
| National Science Council | |
| Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej | |
| Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
| Russian Foundation for Basic Research | |
| Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior | |
| Suomen Akatemia | |
| Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung | |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Austrian Science Fund | |
| Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS | |
| Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| Belgian Federal Science Policy Office | |
| Chulalongkorn University | |
| Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
| Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie | |
| Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture | |
| Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología | |
| Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | |
| Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft | |
| General Secretariat for Research and Technology | |
| Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment | |
| Hungarian Scientific Research Fund | |
| Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | |
| Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning | |
| National Research Foundation of Korea | |
| Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | |
| Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | |
| A.G. Leventis Foundation | |
| National Science and Technology Development Agency | Thailand |
| Narodowe Centrum Nauki | 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, 2012/07/E/ST2/01406, 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 |
| Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación | |
| Universiti Malaya | |
| Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego | |
| Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
| Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan | |
| National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | |
| Ministry of Education and Science | |
| Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences | |
| Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla | |
| Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación | |
| Horizon 2020 | 675440 |
| European Regional Development Fund | |
| State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM | |
| Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional | |
| Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission | |
| State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine | |
| Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules |
Keywords
- Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
- Photon production
- Supersymmetry