https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09721-5
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Combined searches for the production of supersymmetric top quark partners in proton–proton collisions at 
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
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Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Wien, Austria
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Institute for Nuclear Problems, Minsk, Belarus
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Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil
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Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Beihang University, Beijing, China
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
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State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
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Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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Faculty of Science, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia
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University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt
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Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP-FU), Fayoum University, El-Fayoum, Egypt
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National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
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Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
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Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
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Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I ), Villeurbanne, France
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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University of Ioánnina, Ioannina, Greece
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MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
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Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyöngyös, Hungary
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Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
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National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar, India
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Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, Kolkata, India
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-A, Mumbai, India
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-B, Mumbai, India
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
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Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
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University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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INFN Sezione di Bari , Universit’a di Bari, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Bologna, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Catania, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Firenze, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Genova, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Napoli , Università di Napoli ’Federico II’ , Napoli, Italy, Università della Basilicata , Potenza, Italy, Università G. Marconi, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Padova , Università di Padova , Padova, Italy, Università di Trento, Trento, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Perugia, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pisa , Università di Pisa , Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa , Pisa Italy, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Torino , Università di Torino , Torino Torino, Italy, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Trieste, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea
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Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
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Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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Department of Physics, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Sejong University, Seoul, Korea
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Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
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Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
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Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
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College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East (AUM), Egaila, Kuwait
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Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
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Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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National Centre for Particle Physics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Universidad de Sonora (UNISON), Hermosillo, Mexico
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Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
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Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
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University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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AGH University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Kraków, Poland
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland
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Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisbon, Portugal
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina (St. Petersburg), Russia
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Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia
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Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics named by A.I. Alikhanov of NRC ‘Kurchatov Institute’, Moscow, Russia
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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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National Research Nuclear University ‘Moscow Engineering Physics Institute’ (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia
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P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Institute for High Energy Physics of National Research Centre ‘Kurchatov Institute’, Protvino, Russia
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National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia
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Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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University of Belgrade: Faculty of Physics and VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
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Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA), Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Department of Physics, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
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Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
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National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Physics Department, Science and Art Faculty, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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Physics Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Institute for Scintillation Materials of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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National Scientific Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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Imperial College, London, UK
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Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Baylor University, Waco, USA
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Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
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The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA
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Boston University, Boston, USA
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Brown University, Providence, USA
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University of California, Davis, Davis, USA
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University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA
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University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
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Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
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University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA
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Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA
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University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
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Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA
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University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, USA
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The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
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Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA
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University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA
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State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
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Northeastern University, Boston, USA
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Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
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The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
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Princeton University, Princeton, USA
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University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, USA
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, USA
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Rice University, Houston, USA
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University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
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Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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TU Wien, Wien, Austria
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Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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UFMS, Nova Andradina, Brazil
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Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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Now at The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
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Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics named by A.I. Alikhanov of NRC ‘Kurchatov Institute’, Moscow, Russia
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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Now at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
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Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Turkey
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
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Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
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Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyongyos, Hungary
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Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
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MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India
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Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
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G.H.G. Khalsa College, Punjab, India
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Shoolini University, Solan, India
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University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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University of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran
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INFN Sezione di Bari , Università di Bari, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Bologna, Italy
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Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e di Struttura Della Materia, Catania, Italy
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Università di Napoli ’Federico II’, Naples, Italy
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Perugia, Italy
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Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico City, Mexico
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia
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Now at National Research Nuclear University ‘Moscow Engineering Physics Institute’ (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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Imperial College, London, UK
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P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, Nilaveli, Sri Lanka
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria
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Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, IN2P3-CNRS, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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Şırnak University, Sirnak, Turkey
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Near East University, Research Center of Experimental Health Science, Nicosia, Turkey
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Konya Technical University, Konya, Turkey
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Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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Piri Reis University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Adiyaman University, Adiyaman, Turkey
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Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
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Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
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Bozok Universitetesi Rektörlügü, Yozgat, Turkey
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Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Milli Savunma University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey
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Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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IPPP Durham University, Durham, UK
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Monash University, Faculty of Science, Clayton, Australia
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Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Bethel University, St. Paul, Minneapolis, USA
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Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkey
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Bingol University, Bingol, Turkey
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Sinop University, Sinop, Turkey
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Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
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Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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Received:
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July
2021
Accepted:
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October
2021
Published online:
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November
2021
A combination of searches for top squark pair production using proton–proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13
at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137
collected by the CMS experiment, is presented. Signatures with at least 2 jets and large missing transverse momentum are categorized into events with 0, 1, or 2 leptons. New results for regions of parameter space where the kinematical properties of top squark pair production and top quark pair production are very similar are presented. Depending on the model, the combined result excludes a top squark mass up to 1325
for a massless neutralino, and a neutralino mass up to 700 for a top squark mass of 1150. Top squarks with masses from 145 to 295, for neutralino masses from 0 to 100, with a mass difference between the top squark and the neutralino in a window of 30 around the mass of the top quark, are excluded for the first time with CMS data. The results of theses searches are also interpreted in an alternative signal model of dark matter production via a spin-0 mediator in association with a top quark pair. Upper limits are set on the cross section for mediator particle masses of up to 420.
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