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@PHDTHESIS{Draeger:295971,
author = {Draeger, Arne-Rasmus},
othercontributors = {Sander, Christian and Schleper, Peter},
title = {{P}rediction of the $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$ and
$\text{{W}}+\text{{J}ets}$ {B}ackground in a {S}earch for
{N}ew {P}hysics with {J}ets and {M}issing {T}ransverse
{E}nergy at {CMS}},
issn = {1435-8085},
school = {Universität Hamburg},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Hamburg},
publisher = {Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron},
reportid = {PUBDB-2016-01240, DESY-THESIS-2016-005},
series = {DESY-THESIS},
pages = {261},
year = {2016},
note = {Dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 2016},
abstract = {One of the primary goals of the LHC is the search for
physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Among the most
studied extensions of the SM is supersymmetry (SUSY), which
postulates a symmetry between fermions and bosons and
requires the introduction of a SUSY partner particle for
every SM particle. At the LHC the production of colored SUSY
particles (squarks $\tilde{\text{q}}$ and gluinos
$\tilde{\text{g}}$) can have a significant cross section,
leading to distinct signatures. These particles decay to
lighter new particles typically emitting quarks and gluons.
Furthermore, the lightest SUSY particle is often assumed to
be stable and only weakly interacting, hence it escapes the
detector and leads to missing transverse energy.\\ In this
thesis, a search for such new particles with proton-proton
collision data recorded at the CMS experiment at
$\sqrt{s}=8\ \text{TeV}$, corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of $19.5 \text{fb}^{-1}$, which is performed in
the final states with jets, missing transverse momentum, and
no isolated muons or electrons. All SM background
contributions are determined from data. A major background
contribution arises from $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$ and
$\text{W}+\text{Jets}$ events where a W boson decays into an
electron or muon which is not identified in the detector,
referred to as "lost-lepton". Such events contribute to the
search selections if the muons and electrons are
unidentified, here denoted as ``lost-leptons''. The main
focus of this thesis is on the development and validation of
a method to estimate the amount of lost-lepton events using
a single-lepton control sample from data.\\The number of
observed events are found to be consistent with the SM
background expectation. Upper exclusion limits on SUSY
particle masses are derived in different simplified models
of $\tilde{\text{g}}$ and $\tilde{\text{q}}$ pair
production. The production of light-flavor
$\tilde{\text{q}}$ below a mass of 780 GeV and
$\tilde{\text{g}}$ with masses below 1.1-1.2 TeV are
excluded at 95\\% confidence level. Furthermore, the
lost-lepton prediction method is refined for the application
to the new LHC data at $\sqrt{s}=13\ \text{TeV}$ , and the
performance of the relevant physics object reconstruction is
demonstrated using the first $42 \text{pb}^{-1}$ of
$\sqrt{s}=13\ \text{TeV}$ data.},
cin = {UNI/EXP / CMS / ATLAS},
cid = {$I:(DE-H253)UNI_EXP-20120731$ / I:(DE-H253)CMS-20120731 /
I:(DE-H253)ATLAS-20120731},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF3-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-899},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)LHC-Exp-CMS-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)29 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.3204/DESY-THESIS-2016-005},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/295971},
}