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Early SUSY searches at the LHCAlex Tapper
Searching for SUSY at the LHC and interplay with astroparticle physics
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Many different SUSY scenarios investigated by LHC expts
My brief is to describe plans for early SUSY searches
What we plan to do with the 2010 and 2011 data
Covering discovery not really mass, spin etc. determination
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Introduction
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The Large Hadron Collider
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The Large Hadron Collider
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The Large Hadron Collider
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The ATLAS detector
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The ATLAS detector
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The CMS detector
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Superconducting Solenoid (4 Tesla)
Muon Detectors
Plastic-Brass Hadronic Calorimeter
Lead TungstateElectromagnetic Calorimeter
Silicon Microstrip Tracker Silicon Pixel Detector
Iron Yoke
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The CMS detector
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Search strategy
Be as model independent as possible But the MSSM has > 100 parameters Need more constrained models Choose a set of benchmark points that
are representative of a range of topologies and areas of phase space
Range of models• MSUGRA (high and low masses)• GMSB• Split SUSY
In this talk MSUGRA at low masses, just above the Tevatron
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Full details of benchmark points in backup slides
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Search strategy
Be as model independent as possible But the MSSM has > 100 parameters Need more constrained models Choose a set of benchmark points that
are representative of a range of topologies and areas of phase space
Range of models• MSUGRA (high and low masses)• GMSB• Split SUSY
In this talk MSUGRA at low masses, just above the Tevatron
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Search strategy
Production Squark and gluino expected to dominate Strong production so high cross section Cross section depends only on masses Approx. independent of SUSY model
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Search strategy
Production Squark and gluino expected to dominate Strong production so high cross section Cross section depends only on masses Approx. independent of SUSY model
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Decay Details of decay chain depend on SUSY model (mass spectra, branching ratios, etc.) Assume RP conserved ➔ decay to lightest SUSY particle (LSP) Assume squarks and gluinos are heavy ➔ long decay chains
Signatures MET from LSPs, high-ET jets and leptons from long decay chain
Focus on robust and simple signatures Common to wide variety of models Let Standard Model background and detector performance define searches not models
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Searches
How might such a generic search look? Simple selection ➔ categorise events by numbers of leptons and jets
Good S/B for most channels (200 pb-1 @ 10 TeV COM) but... Backgrounds straight from Monte Carlo
Measuring backgrounds is the key ➔
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• Jet ET > 100 (40) GeV• ΔΦ(jeti,MET) > 0.2 rad• Lepton ET > 20 (10) GeV • MET > 80 GeV• Meff = ΣETjet + ΣETlep + MET• MET > 0.2-0.3 x Meff
• ST>0.2• MT > 100 GeV
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Backgrounds
Physics Standard Model processes that give the same signatures as SUSY Cannot rely on Monte Carlo predictions ➔ measure in data
Detector effects Detector noise, mis-measurements etc. that generate MET or extra jets Commissioning and calibration ➔ results from 2009 pilot run
Beam related Beam-halo muons (and cosmic-ray muons), beam-gas events Data and simulation already ➔ measure in situ too
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Commissioning and calibration Universal astonishment at how well the simulation describes the data Detector noise under study ➔ promising start in understanding
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Universal astonishment at how well the simulation describes the data Resolutions well described by simulation
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Universal astonishment at how well the simulation describes the data Higher-level objects looking good ➔ jet pT spectrum
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Physics backgrounds Data-driven background estimates are the key challenge in early
SUSY searches
General idea is find a control region where SM is dominant and use this to predict SM background in signal region
Two approaches pursued: Matrix (ABCD) methods ➔ playing variables off against each other Replacement methods ➔ modify SM with same topology as signal to predict signal
In both cases need to identify clean SM control region Difficult to avoid using Monte Carlo in some way
Will discuss searches giving examples of data-driven methods ➔
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All-hadronic search
All-hadronic search highly sensitive to SUSY But suffers from many backgrounds Nice examples of backgrounds both from detector effects
and from Standard Model physics
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All-hadronic search
Mis-measurement of a jet leads to MET along the jet axis Remove with ΔΦ(jeti,MET) > 0.2 rad
Several methods developed to predict MET tail from QCD events Matrix methods to estimate from control regions Smearing method ➔
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All-hadronic search
• Derive Gaussian part of smearing function from γ + jet control sample
• Derive non-Gaussian part from Mercedes events, requiring that the MET is co-linear with one of the jets
• Combine smearing functions, normalising with di-jet sample
• Apply smearing function to low MET events to predict the tail in the high MET signal region
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All-hadronic search
A novel approach combining angular and energy measurements No dependence on MET ➔ robust for early LHC running Originally proposed for di-jet events ➔ generalised up to 6 jets Perfectly balanced events have αT=0.5 (cut at αT>0.55) Mis-measurement of either jet leads to lower values
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Data-driven background estimates Find a control region in phase space where SM
background dominates Use measurements in this region to infer SM
background in signal region Example Z → νν + jets ➔ irreducible background Replacement technique
Background estimates
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Weakness: background at low ET, theoretical errors
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Background estimates
Select γ + ≥3 jets with Eγ>150 GeV Clean sample S/B>20 Remove photon from the event Recalculate MET Normalise with σ(Z+jets)/σ(γ+jets) from
MC or measurements
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Single-lepton search
Requiring one lepton (e or µ) suppresses QCD background powerfully Highly sensitive to SUSY Backgrounds come from Standard Model processes with neutrinos ➔ real MET In particular top and W decays
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Background estimates
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Data-driven background estimates Find a control region in phase space where SM background dominates Use measurements in this region to infer SM background in signal region Example W, top backgrounds to single-lepton search Playing two discriminate quantities off against each other
Well known matrix (MT) method Use low MT control region Predict MET spectrum Weaknesses
• Non-independence of variables• Signal contamination
More sophisticated methods ➔
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Background estimates “Tiles” method
Use the Monte Carlo prediction for the shapes of SM backgrounds Assume independence of variables for signal
Can express Nevts in each region in terms of fSM and fSUSY
Take fSM from MC for each region and solve the system of linear equations
Predicts the number of SM background and SUSY signal events in each region Background prediction not biassed by signal contamination
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hypothesis is excluded, the signal events must be distributed differently from the SM background, oth-erwise their discrimination from background would not be possible. On the other hand, if no significantsignal is present, a distribution of signal events among the tiles cannot be determined so that also the sig-nal abundance itself is undetermined. The no-signal case is therefore not detected by a vanishing signalyield (which can be anything), but by a solution of the tiles method (either analytical, or via a fit) that isapproximately independent of the signal yield that is assumed.3) The no-signal case is effectively equalto the case where signal and background distributions are indistinguishable. Both cases would exhibitanticorrelations close to unity between the signal and background yields returned by the method, whosesum must be equal to the number of observed events.
With the above assumptions, the Tiles method has remarkable features as outlined below.
• The overall SM background event yields for one or several inclusive background components, andthe overall inclusive beyond-SM event yield are fully derived by the method.
• No assumption is made about the distribution of signal events among the tiles, thereby excludingany prejudice about background domination in particular tiles.
• The Tiles method also determines the signal event fraction in each tile, thus providing a signalshape estimate within the chosen granularity of the tiles.
• If the model consists of more than 2!2 tiles, the unknowns are overconstrained and the assump-tions can be tested via a log-likelihood test statistics.
• If the model consists of more than 2!2 tiles, parts of the model assumptions can be relaxed toimprove the goodness of the model.
We first discuss the minimum 2!2 tiles setup, before generalising the approach to n!n tiles. Variousconfigurations are studied using toy experiments. Systematic uncertainties are evaluated by varying theMC composition and shape. Within the context of this note, we limit ourselves to the one-lepton searchchannel and choose the event variables MT and Meff to segment the data into tiles. The Tiles method isapplied to preselected data samples including a minimum EmissT requirement (cf. Section 2.3 without theMT requirement).3) In other words, the !lnL difference between free signal yield and signal yield fixed to zero is insignificant (cf. Section 3.3).
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Di-lepton searches
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Low yields but very interesting properties Same sign searches
Very low Standard Model background rate Backgrounds from charge mis-identified top events (QCD in τ channel)
Opposite sign Use opposite-sign, opposite-flavour sample to subtract SM background
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Di-lepton searches
Fit ee, µµ and eµ distributions simultaneously Resolution function and efficiencies from data 200 pb-1 @ 10 TeV Di-leptonic end-point mll,max=51.3 ± 1.5 (stat.) ± 0.9 (syst.) GeV [52.7 GeV]
Nice example of what could be done with modest dataset
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Discovery reach @ 10 TeV
Scan Meff cut for best sensitivity (50% error on backgrounds) All-hadronic and single-lepton searches vie for highest sensitivity Clear discovery potential beyond the Tevatron with 200 pb-1 @ 10 TeV
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Discovery reach @ 7 TeV
Discovery reach for single-lepton + jets + MET channel
Need to get above the 400 GeV line to be competitive
Possible with ~100 pb-1 @ 7 TeV
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Summary Early searches based on robust generic signatures
Sensitive as possible to a variety of new physics models
Detectors in great shape after 2009 LHC pilot run Commissioning progressing well
A wide range of data-driven techniques developed to measure efficiencies and backgrounds Redundancy builds confidence
Eagerly awaiting start of 7 TeV LHC collisions next week! LHC should be at the search frontier before the end of 2010
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Backup: Links
ATLAS latest results https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/AtlasResults
ATLAS Physics TDR http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1125884?ln=en
CMS latest results https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/PhysicsResults
CMS Physics TDR http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/cpt/tdr/
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Backup: Benchmark points
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