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RECO level \sqrt{s}_{min} and subsystem \sqrt{s}_{min}: improved global inclusive variables for measuring the new physics mass scale in missing energy events at hadron colliders
The variable \sqrt{s}_{min} was originally proposed in arXiv:0812.1042 as a
model-independent, global and fully inclusive measure of the new physics mass
scale in missing energy events at hadron colliders. In the original incarnation
of \sqrt{s}_{min}, however, the connection to the new physics mass scale was
blurred by the effects of the underlying event, most notably initial state
radiation and multiple parton interactions. In this paper we advertize two
improved variants of the \sqrt{s}_{min} variable, which overcome this problem.
First we show that by evaluating the \sqrt{s}_{min} variable at the RECO level,
in terms of the reconstructed objects in the event, the effects from the
underlying event are significantly diminished and the nice correlation between
the peak in the \sqrt{s}_{min}^{(reco)} distribution and the new physics mass
scale is restored. Secondly, the underlying event problem can be avoided
altogether when the \sqrt{s}_{min} concept is applied to a subsystem of the
event which does not involve any QCD jets. We supply an analytic formula for
the resulting subsystem \sqrt{s}_{min}^{(sub)} variable and show that its peak
exhibits the usual correlation with the mass scale of the particles produced in
the subsystem. Finally, we contrast \sqrt{s}_{min} to other popular inclusive
variables such as H_T, M_{Tgen} and M_{TTgen}. We illustrate our discussion
with several examples from supersymmetry, and with dilepton events from top
quark pair production.Comment: 41 pages, 26 figure
SUSY parameter determination at the LHC using cross sections and kinematic edges
We study the determination of supersymmetric parameters at the LHC from a
global fit including cross sections and edges of kinematic distributions. For
illustration, we focus on a minimal supergravity scenario and discuss how well
it can be constrained at the LHC operating at 7 and 14 TeV collision energy,
respectively. We find that the inclusion of cross sections greatly improves the
accuracy of the SUSY parameter determination, and allows to reliably extract
model parameters even in the initial phase of LHC data taking with 7 TeV
collision energy and 1/fb integrated luminosity. Moreover, cross section
information may be essential to study more general scenarios, such as those
with non-universal gaugino masses, and distinguish them from minimal,
universal, models.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figure
Aspects of Non-minimal Gauge Mediation
A large class of non-minimal gauge mediation models, such as (semi-)direct
gauge mediation, predict a hierarchy between the masses of the supersymmetric
standard model gauginos and those of scalar particles. We perform a
comprehensive study of these non-minimal gauge mediation models, including mass
calculations in semi-direct gauge mediation, to illustrate these features, and
discuss the phenomenology of the models. We point out that the cosmological
gravitino problem places stringent constraints on mass splittings, when the
Bino is the NLSP. However, the GUT relation of the gaugino masses is broken
unlike the case of minimal gauge mediation, and an NLSP other than the Bino
(especially the gluino NLSP) becomes possible, relaxing the cosmological
constraints. We also discuss the collider signals of the models.Comment: 56 pages, 8 figures; v2:minor corrections, references added; v3:minor
correction
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All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run
We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We search for gravitational-wave transients with a duration of milliseconds to approximately one second in the 32-4096 Hz frequency band with minimal assumptions about the signal properties, thus targeting a wide variety of sources. We also perform a matched-filter search for gravitational-wave transients from cosmic string cusps for which the waveform is well modeled. The unmodeled search detected gravitational waves from several binary black hole mergers which have been identified by previous analyses. No other significant events have been found by either the unmodeled search or the cosmic string search. We thus present the search sensitivities for a variety of signal waveforms and report upper limits on the source rate density as a function of the characteristic frequency of the signal. These upper limits are a factor of 3 lower than the first observing run, with a 50% detection probability for gravitational-wave emissions with energies of ∼10-9 Mc2 at 153 Hz. For the search dedicated to cosmic string cusps we consider several loop distribution models, and present updated constraints from the same search done in the first observing run
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Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model
We present results from a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational
waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using a hidden Markov model
(HMM) to track spin wandering. This search improves on previous HMM-based
searches of LIGO data by using an improved frequency domain matched filter, the
-statistic, and by analysing data from Advanced LIGO's second
observing run. In the frequency range searched, from to
, we find no evidence of gravitational radiation. At
, the most sensitive search frequency, we report an upper
limit on gravitational wave strain (at 95\% confidence) of when marginalising over source inclination angle. This is the
most sensitive search for Scorpius X-1, to date, that is specifically designed
to be robust in the presence of spin wandering
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