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Book cover Measurement of the Inclusive Electron Cross-Section from Heavy-Flavour Decays and Search for Compressed Supersymmetric Scenarios with the ATLAS Experiment

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This chapter describes the final physics analysis carried out within this thesis—the search for compressed supersymmetric scenarios in final states with missing transverse energy, jets, and one isolated low-\(p_{\mathrm {T}}\) lepton using the full ATLAS dataset of \(\fancyscript{L} = 4.7\) \(\mathrm {fb}^{-1}\) recorded in 2011 at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy. The physics motivation as well as an overview of the analysis are given in Sect. 6.1

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Notes

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    A smaller part of the difference between the two generator setups can be attributed to differences in the parton shower modeling.

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    The mistagging efficiency is defined as the number of light jets tagged as b-jets over the total number of light jets.

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    The transverse momenta of the vector bosons are defined as \(p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {W}}=\sqrt{(\overrightarrow{p}_{\mathrm {T,lep_1}}+\overrightarrow{p}_{\mathrm {T}}^{\;miss})^2} \quad \) and \(p_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {Z}}= \sqrt{(\overrightarrow{p}_{\mathrm {T,lep_1}}+\overrightarrow{p}_{\mathrm {T,lep_2}})^2}\) for the \(W\) and \(Z\) bosons respectively.

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Backes, M. (2014). Search for Compressed Supersymmetry with 2011 Data. In: Measurement of the Inclusive Electron Cross-Section from Heavy-Flavour Decays and Search for Compressed Supersymmetric Scenarios with the ATLAS Experiment. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07136-7_6

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