Title: Super Symmetric Top Squark Search in the 0-lepton Final State

Speaker: James Zabel (Rice University)

Abstract: A search for Super Symmetric top quark partners, or top squarks, is presented.  The search focuses on zero lepton final states resulting from a variety of decay modes.  The data collected result from proton-proton collisions generated by the LHC with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, were recorded by the CMS detector, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb-1.  Events are categorized by the properties of reconstructed jets, the presence of bottom quark candidates, the presence of top quark candidates, and missing transverse momentum.  No statistically significant excess of events above the expected contribution from standard model processes is observed. Exclusion limits are set in the context of simplified models of top squark pair production.