Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Z boson, b -jets and missing transverse momentum in √s=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

6 High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States of America 7 Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of

60a Department of Modern Physics and State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. 60b Institute of

Department of Modern Physics and State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui; (b) School of Physics,

33 (a) Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; (b) Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui; (c) Department

The estimated background in each search region is obtained from the yield of data events in the corresponding control sample and a transfer factor obtained from simulation, R

A second key assumption was that a long-term perspective is necessary when planning a groundwater market instrument with stakeholders (Babbitt et al., 2017); generally,

An elaborate analysis of the proposed Adaptive Robust Controller for Hypersonic Vehicles (ARCH) is carried out using a stand-alone control verification method- ology. This

As part of each analysis, the t¯ t and W +jets backgrounds are estimated using dedicated control regions (CRs), making the analysis more robust against potential mis-modelling