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No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-04-10 BMWFW FWF (Austria) FNRS FWO (Belgium) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) MES (Bulgaria) CERN CAST Innovation Foundation MoST NSFC (China) COLCIENCIAS (Colombia) MSES CSF (Croatia) RPF (Cyprus) MoER ERC IUT ERDF (Estonia) Academy of Finland Nokia HIP (Finland) CEA CNRS/IN2P3 (France) BMBF DFG HGF (Germany) GSRT (Greece) OTKA NIH (Hungary) DAE DST (India) IPM (Iran) SFI (Ireland) INFN (Italy) MSIP NRF (Republic of Korea) LAS (Lithuania) MOE UM (Malaysia) BUAP CINVESTAV CONACYT Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnologia del Distrito Federal SEP UASLP-FAI (Mexico) MBIE (New Zealand) PAEC (Pakistan) MSHENSC (Poland) FCT (Portugal) JINR (Dubna) MON RosAtom RAS RFBR (Russia) MESTD (Serbia) SEIDI CPAN (Spain) Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland) MST (Taipei) ThEPCenter IPST STAR NSTDA (Thailand) TUBITAK TAEK (Turkey) NASU SFFR (Ukraine) STFC (United Kingdom) DOE NSF (USA) Marie-Curie programme European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union) Leventis Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Belgian Federal Science Policy Office Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans 1'Industrie et dans 1'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium) Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWTBelgium) Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science European Union Regional Development Fund Mobility Plus programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) OPUS programme of the National Science Centre of Poland(Poland) Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF Greek NSRF National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund Programa Clarin-COFUND del Principado de Asturias Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand) Welch Foundation Science and Technology Facilities Council An inclusive search is performed for supersymmetry in final states containing jets and an apparent imbalance in transverse momentum, (p) over right arrow (miss)(T),due to the production of unobserved weakly interacting particles in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data, recorded with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 18.5fb(-1). The dimensionless kinematic variable alpha(T) is used to discriminate between events with genuine (p) over right arrow (miss)(T)associated with unobserved particles and spurious values of (p) over right arrow (miss)(T) Tarising from jet energy mismeasurements. No excess of event yields above the expected standard model backgrounds is observed. The results are interpreted in terms of constraints on the parameter space of several simplified models of supersymmetry that assume the pair production of top squarks. The search provides sensitivity to a broad range of top squark ((t) over tilde) decay modes, including the two-body decay (t)over tilde> -> c (chi) over tilde (0)(1),where c is a charm quark (chi) over tilde (0)(1) and is the lightest neutralino, as well as the four-body decay (t)over tilde> -> bf (f) over bar' (chi) over bar (0)(1),where b is a bottom quark and f and (f) over bar' are fermions produced in the decay of an intermediate off-shell W boson. These modes dominate in scenarios in which the top squark and lightest neutralino are nearly degenerate in mass. For these modes, top squarks with masses as large as 260 and 225 GeV are excluded, respectively, for the two-and four-body decays. (C) 2017 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. 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