Table of contents

Stop Search using the D0 Particle Detector at Fermilab

The Defense Talk

Search Motivation

The Experiment

Slide 5

Standard Model

SUSY and its Zoo

Slide 8

Stop Production Signature 2 Jets + Missing Energy

Stop Production Signature What’s Missing Energy?

Triggering JET_2_MISS Trigger Conditions

Triggering

Triggering Turn Ons

Slide 14

Data Cleanup

Misvertexing

Main Ring

Hardware Glitches--Adding to the Bad Runs List

Estimating Backgrounds

Vector Boson & Top

Slide 21

QCD Multijet Background

QCD Multijet Background JET_30

Slide 24

QCD Multijet Background JET_3_MON Technique

Data After Initial Cuts

Slide 27

Removing Events with Jets in the ICR

Final Selection Cuts

Setting Limits

Results

My Contributions

Conclusion

Author: Dr. Carl Lundstedt

E-mail: clundst@unlserve.unl.edu

Homepage: http://unlhepcl.unl.edu/cl/

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