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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 51: Supersymmetrie 2

T 51.3: Talk

Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 17:15–17:30, ZHG 010

Estimation of the QCD background for searches for Supersymmetry in a channel with zero leptons — •Kathrin Störig1, Sascha Caron1,2, and Gregor Herten11University of Freiburg — 2University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Although large regions of the supersymmetric parameter space have been excluded by ATLAS in recent times, there are plenty of possible scenarios left. Searches, however, do not only need to become smarter, but also (systematic) uncertainties are to be reduced and background estimates improved. SUSY searches in general use transfer functions, determined from MC, to derive a background estimate from several control regions. - Hereby, a crucial ingredient for SUSY searches without leptons is the precise estimation of the QCD background.
In this talk, a semi-data-driven method will be presented to estimate the QCD background by measuring the transfer functions directly. An important variable is the minimum angular separation between jets and the missing transverse energy (ETmiss), called Δϕmin(jet,ETmiss).
The transfer function is defined as the ratio of events with Δϕmin < 0.2 (QCD enhanced) and Δϕmin > 0.4 (signal region). It is evaluated as function of ETmiss  in two control regions. After subtracting the non-QCD background from data, the QCD transfer functions are fitted and the final numbers are extracted from an interpolation of the fit into the signal regions. The impact of several systematic uncertainties, e.g. the jet energy scale and pileup, will be discussed.

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