Search for New Physics in All-hadronic Events with AlphaT in 8 TeV Data with CMS

An inclusive search for supersymmetric processes that produce final states with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqare-root of s = 8 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 inverse fb collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. In this search, a dimensionless kinematic variable, alphaT is used to discriminate between events with genuine and misreconstructed missing transverse energy. The search is based on an examination of the number of reconstructed jets per event, the scalar sum of transverse energies of these jets, and the number of these jets identified as originating from bottom quarks. The results are interpreted in two simplified models with direct stop production.