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The Search for the Light Top Squark

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Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment

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The lighter mass eigenstate of the superpartner of the top quark, the top squark, serves as a solution for the Hierarchy problem, if its mass is about 1 TeV. The chapter presents the search for the light top squark in signatures with jets and missing transverse momentum.

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    In case the electron or muon reconstruction algorithms are reconstructing a lepton although there was no lepton produced in the hard process or the subsequent decay chain, the lepton is commonly referred to as a fake lepton.

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Köhler, N.M. (2019). The Search for the Light Top Squark. In: Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25988-4_11

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