SEARCH FOR ELECTROWEAK PRODUCTION OF SUPERSYMMETRIC STATES IN NON-UNIVERSAL HIGGS MASS MODEL WITH TWO EXTRA PARAMETERS COMPRESSED SCENARIO WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR

Abstract

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in July 2012, completing the particle content of the Standard Model. Although the Standard Model is a great triumph, it is not considered to be the complete theory of particle physics. Among the newly-developed theories, Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the most promising ones. SUSY predicts the existence of supersymmetric partner particles and it is one of the best-motivated extensions of the space-time symmetry of particle interactions. There are supersymmetric partner particles associated with each SM particles in which the spin differs by 1/2. This dissertation focuses on a search for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with compressed mass spectra in the final states with exactly two low-momentum leptons and missing transverse momentum. The proton-proton collision data is recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016, corresponding to 36.1~{\ifb} of integrated luminosity at $\sqrt{s} = 13$~{\TeV}. Events with same-flavor and opposite electric charge lepton pairs are selected. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model prediction. Results are interpreted using the non-universal Higgs mass model with two extra parameters (NUHM2) with small mass differences between the masses of produced supersymmetric particles. Upper limits of the cross-section at 95\% confidence level are set for the NUHM2 model as a function of the universal gaugino mass $m_{1/2}$.