Search for top squarks in r-parity-violating supersymmetry using three or more leptons and b-tagged jets

Physical Review Letters 111:22 (2013)

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, C Fabjan, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, W Kiesenhofer, V Knünz, M Krammer, I Krätschmer, D Liko, I Mikulec, D Rabady, B Rahbaran, C Rohringer, H Rohringer, R Schöfbeck, J Strauss, A Taurok, W Treberer-Treberspurg, W Waltenberger, CE Wulz, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, J Suarez Gonzalez, S Alderweireldt, M Bansal, S Bansal, T Cornelis, EA De Wolf, X Janssen, A Knutsson, S Luyckx, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, B Roland, R Rougny, Z Staykova, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, A Van Spilbeeck, F Blekman, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, A Kalogeropoulos, J Keaveney, M Maes, A Olbrechts, S Tavernier, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, GP Van Onsem, I Villella, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker, L Favart, APR Gay, T Hreus, A Léonard, PE Marage, A Mohammadi, L Perniè, T Reis, T Seva, L Thomas, C Vander Velde, P Vanlaer, J Wang, V Adler, K Beernaert, L Benucci, A Cimmino, S Costantini, S Dildick, G Garcia, B Klein, J Lellouch, A Marinov, J McCartin, AA Ocampo Rios, D Ryckbosch, M Sigamani, N Strobbe, F Thyssen, M Tytgat, S Walsh, E Yazgan, N Zaganidis, S Basegmez, C Beluffi

Abstract:

A search for anomalous production of events with three or more isolated leptons and bottom-quark jets produced in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV is presented. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb-1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2012. No excess above the standard model expectations is observed. The results are interpreted in the context of supersymmetric models with signatures that have low missing transverse energy arising from light top-squark pair production with R-parity-violating decays of the lightest supersymmetric particle. In two models with different R-parity-violating couplings, top squarks are excluded below masses of 1020 GeV and 820 GeV when the lightest supersymmetric particle has a mass of 200 GeV. © 2013 CERN.

A low-mass cut-off near the hydrogen burning limit for Salpeter-like initial mass functions in early-type galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 436:1 (2013) 253-258

Authors:

Matteo Barnabè, Chiara Spiniello, Léon VE Koopmans, Scott C Trager, Oliver Czoske, Tommaso Treu

A statistical analysis of circumstellar material in Type Ia supernovae

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 436:1 (2013) 222-240

Authors:

K Maguire, M Sullivan, F Patat, A Gal-Yam, IM Hook, S Dhawan, DA Howell, P Mazzali, PE Nugent, Y-C Pan, P Podsiadlowski, JD Simon, A Sternberg, S Valenti, C Baltay, D Bersier, N Blagorodnova, T-W Chen, N Ellman, U Feindt, F Förster, M Fraser, S González-Gaitán, ML Graham, C Gutiérrez, S Hachinger, E Hadjiyska, C Inserra, C Knapic, RR Laher, G Leloudas, S Margheim, R McKinnon, M Molinaro, N Morrell, EO Ofek, D Rabinowitz, A Rest, D Sand, R Smareglia, SJ Smartt, F Taddia, ES Walker, NA Walton, DR Young

On the progenitor of the Type Ic SN 2013dk in the Antennae galaxies★

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters Oxford University Press (OUP) 436:1 (2013) l109-l113

Authors:

N Elias-Rosa, A Pastorello, JR Maund, K Takáts, M Fraser, SJ Smartt, S Benetti, G Pignata, D Sand, S Valenti

Searches for new physics using the tt̄ invariant mass distribution in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 111:21 (2013)

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, C Fabjan, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, W Kiesenhofer, V Knünz, M Krammer, I Krätschmer, D Liko, I Mikulec, D Rabady, B Rahbaran, C Rohringer, H Rohringer, R Schöfbeck, J Strauss, A Taurok, W Treberer-Treberspurg, W Waltenberger, CE Wulz, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, J Suarez Gonzalez, S Alderweireldt, M Bansal, S Bansal, T Cornelis, EA De Wolf, X Janssen, A Knutsson, S Luyckx, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, B Roland, R Rougny, Z Staykova, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, A Van Spilbeeck, F Blekman, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, A Kalogeropoulos, J Keaveney, M Maes, A Olbrechts, S Tavernier, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, GP Van Onsem, I Villella, C Caillol, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker, L Favart, APR Gay, T Hreus, A Léonard, PE Marage, A Mohammadi, L Perniè, T Reis, T Seva, L Thomas, C Vander Velde, P Vanlaer, J Wang, V Adler, K Beernaert, L Benucci, A Cimmino, S Costantini, S Dildick, G Garcia, B Klein, J Lellouch, A Marinov, J McCartin, AA Ocampo Rios, D Ryckbosch, M Sigamani, N Strobbe, F Thyssen, M Tytgat, S Walsh, E Yazgan, N Zaganidis, S Basegmez

Abstract:

Searches for anomalous top quark-antiquark production are presented, based on pp collisions at √s=8 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1, were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The observed tt̄ invariant mass spectrum is found to be compatible with the standard model prediction. Limits on the production cross section times branching fraction probe, for the first time, a region of parameter space for certain models of new physics not yet constrained by precision measurements. © 2013 CERN.