ATLAS Run 1 searches for direct pair production of third-generation squarks at the Large Hadron Collider
2015
Abstract
This paper reviews and extends searches for the direct pair production of the scalar supersymmetric partners of the top and bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS collaboration during the LHC Run 1. Most of the analyses use 20 fbMINUS SIGN 1 of collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 8 TeV, although in some case an additional 4.7 fbMINUS SIGN 1 of collision data at root s = 7 TeV are used.
New analyses are introduced to improve the sensitivity to specific regions of the model parameter space.