Search for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with photonic final states using the first LHC Run II data recorded with the CMS detector

A search for supersymmetry in final states with photons is presented in this thesis. Datacollected in Run II of the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV isused. The proton-proton collision dataset recorded with the CMS experiment in 2015corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb−1 .The analysis is designed to be sensitive to electroweak production of supersymmetric particles and compressed mass spectra. All considered models are motivated bygauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. A cut-and-count experiment is performedusing three exclusive search bins. No sign for physics beyond the standard model isobserved.Exclusion limits are set for a general gauge mediation scenario and a simplifiedmodel assuming electroweak gaugino production. A similar sensitivity is reached as inthe search performed at s = 8 TeV.Additionally, two simplified models of gluino pair production are considered. Thecurrently best limits set by CMS can be improved for these scenarios at large neutralinoand chargino masses.1