Speaker
Dr
David Morse
(Northeastern University)
Description
Searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) are presented based on the electroweak pair production of neutralinos and charginos, leading to decay channels with Higgs, Z, and W bosons and undetected lightest SUSY particles (LSPs) using 8 TeV collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC. Neutralino pair production leading to hh, hZ, and ZZ states with missing transverse energy ($E_T^{miss}$) is considered, as well as chargino-neutralino pair production, leading to hW states with $E_T^{miss}$. The decays of a Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair, to a photon pair, and to final states with leptons are considered in conjunction with hadronic and leptonic decay modes of the Z and W bosons.
Primary author
Dr
David Morse
(Northeastern University)
