@article{OPUS4-15018, title = {Search for supersymmetry in events containing a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum in \(\sqrt {s}\) = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector}, series = {European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields}, volume = {75}, journal = {European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields}, number = {7}, organization = {ATLAS Collaboration}, doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3518-2}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-150184}, pages = {318}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Two searches for supersymmetric particles in final states containing a same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair, jets and large missing transverse momentum are presented. The proton-proton collision data used in these searches were collected at a centre-of-mass energy \(\sqrt {s}\) = 8 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb\(^{-1}\). Two leptonic production mechanisms are considered: decays of squarks and gluinos with Z bosons in the final state, resulting in a peak in the dilepton invariant mass distribution around the Z-boson mass; and decays of neutralinos (e.g. \(\tilde{χ}\)\(^{0}_{2}\) → ℓ\(^{+}\)ℓ\(^{-}\)\(\tilde{χ}\)\(^{0}_{1}\)), resulting in a kinematic endpoint in the dilepton invariant mass distribution. For the former, an excess of events above the expected Standard Model background is observed, with a significance of three standard deviations. In the latter case, the data are well-described by the expected Standard Model background. The results from each channel are interpreted in the context of several supersymmetric models involving the production of squarks and gluinos.}, language = {en} }