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The main background for the supersymmetric stop direct production search comes from Standard Model \( t\overline t \) events. For the single-lepton search channel, we introduce a few kinematic variables to further suppress this background by focusing on its dileptonic and semileptonic topologies. All are defined to have end points in the background, but not signal distributions. They can substantially improve the stop signal significance and mass reach when combined with traditional kinematic variables such as the total missing transverse energy. Among them, our variable \( M_{{T2}}^W \) hasthebestoverallperformancebecause it uses all available kinematic information, including the on-shell mass of both W’s. We see 20 %-30 % improvement on the discovery significance and estimate that the 8 TeV LHC run with 20 fb−1 of data would be able to reach an exclusion limit of 650-700 GeV for direct stop production, as long as the stop decays dominantly to the top quark and a light stable neutralino. Most of the mass range required for the supersymmetric solution of the naturalness problem in the standard scenario can be covered.
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Bai, Y., Cheng, HC., Gallicchio, J. et al. Stop the top background of the stop search. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 110 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2012)110
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