Search for pair production of gluinos decaying via stop and sbottom in events with b -jets and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for supersymmetry involving the pair production of gluinos decaying via third-generation squarks to the lightest neutralino (chi) over tilde (0)(1) is reported. It uses an LHC proton-proto ...

Baptiste Abeloos | Giulio Aielli | A. A. Affolder | Martin Aleksa | J. Abdallah | P. P. Allport | N. Anjos | John Alison | Georges Aad | Tatjana Agatonovic-Jovin | Alexey Antonov | Torsten Paul Ake Åkesson | Muhammad Alhroob | Gianluca Alimonti | Glenn Amundsen | Solveig Albrand | Jahred Adelman | Gabriel Anders | Ovsat Abdinov | Stylianos Angelidakis | Henso Abreu | Stefanie Adomeit | Philipp Anger | Brad Abbott | Ivan Angelozzi | Christoph Amelung | Theodoros Alexopoulos | Timothy Andeen | Aaron Angerami | Andrei | D. L. Adams | Katsuya Amako | Leszek Adamczyk | Attilio Andreazza | S. Amoroso | T. Adye | B. Alvarez Gonzalez | A. Alonso | C. Alexa | A. Aloisio | C. Anastopoulos | I. N. Aleksandrov | C. F. Anders | Francis Anghinolfi | G. Alexander | M. Antonelli | D. Amidei | B. S. Acharya | J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra | S. P. Ahlen | A. V. Akimov | M. Aliev | M. G. Alviggi | L. S. Ancu | N. Andari | K. J. Anderson | A. Annovi | Y. Abulaiti | F. Ahmadov | F. Alonso | C. Alpigiani | J. Adelman | D. Amidei | A. Annovi | F. Anghinolfi | B. Abbott | H. Abramowicz | G. Aad | J. Abdallah | O. Abdinov | R. Aben | O. AbouZeid | H. Abreu | B. Acharya | L. Adamczyk | D. Adams | S. Adomeit | T. Adye | S. Ahlen | G. Aielli | J. Albert | S. Albrand | M. Aleksa | I. Aleksandrov | C. Alexa | G. Alexander | T. Alexopoulos | M. Alhroob | M. Aliev | G. Alimonti | J. Alison | B. Allbrooke | P. Allport | A. Aloisio | F. Alonso | B. González | M. Alviggi | K. Amako | C. Amelung | A. Amorim | C. Anastopoulos | L. Ancu | N. Andari | T. Andeen | C. Anders | G. Anders | K. Anderson | A. Andreazza | S. Angelidakis | P. Anger | A. Angerami | A. Anisenkov | N. Anjos | M. Antonelli | A. Antonov | T. Åkesson | A. Akimov | Y. Abulaiti | T. Agatonović-Jovin | F. Ahmadov | Y. Coutinho | S. Amoroso | G. Amundsen | R. Abreu | H. Akerstedt | G. Alberghi | C. Alpigiani | I. Angelozzi | A. Alonso | N. L. Abraham | A. Affolder | B. Allen | M. Alstaty | B. Amadio | J. Anders | M. Verzini | S. Alkire | D. Á. Piqueras | J. Agricola | S. Santos | Baptiste Abeloos | O. S. AbouZeid | R. Abreu | G. L. Alberghi | M. J. Alconada Verzini | Y. Amaral Coutinho | S. P. Amor Dos Santos | A. V. Anisenkov | B. W. Allen | M. I. Alstaty | B. T. Amadio | J. K. Anders | Halina Abramowicz | Johannes Agricola | Henrik Akerstedt | Justin Albert | Bmm Allbrooke | D. Álvarez Piqueras | António Amorim | Rosemarie Aben | S. P. Alkire | O. Abdinov

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