@article{f6fec6a55b8f427fa18e2a4c4d21ba99,
title = "Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Z boson, b-jets and missing transverse momentum in √s = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "A search is presented for direct top squark pair production using events with at least two leptons including a same-flavour opposite-sign pair with invariant mass consistent with the Z boson mass, jets tagged as originating from b-quarks and missing transverse momentum. The analysis is performed with proton–proton collision data at √s = 8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. No excess beyond the Standard Model expectation is observed. Interpretations of the results are provided in models based on the direct pair production of the heavier top squark state (t2) followed by the decay to the lighter top squark state (t1) via t2 → Zt1, and for t1 pair production in natural gaugemediated supersymmetry breaking scenarios where the neutralino (χ 01) is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and decays producing a Z boson and a gravitino (G ) via the χ 01 → Z G process.",
author = "{The ATLAS collaboration} and G. Aad and B. Abbott and J. Abdallah and Khalek, {S. Abdel} and O. Abdinov and R. Aben and B. Abi and M. Abolins and Zeid, {O. S.Abou} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and R. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, {B. S.} and L. Adamczyk and Adams, {D. L.} and J. Adelman and S. Adomeit and T. Adye and T. Agatonovic-Jovin and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and M. Agustoni and Ahlen, {S. P.} and A. Ahmad and F. Ahmadov and G. Aielli and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and G. Akimoto and Akimov, {A. V.} and Alberghi, {G. L.} and J. Albert and S. Albrand and Verzini, {M. J.Alconada} and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, {I. N.} and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and G. Alexandre and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and G. Alimonti and L. Alio and J. Alison and Allbrooke, {B. M.M.} and Allison, {L. J.} and Allport, {P. P.} and Allwood-Spiers, {S. E.} and J. Almond and A. Aloisio and L. Heinrich",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2014.",
year = "2014",
month = jun,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2883-6",
language = "English",
volume = "74",
journal = "European Physical Journal C",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "6",
}