A search for supersymmetry in Di-Lepton final states using the Razor variables with the ATLAS detector

A search for supersymmetry in nal states with exactly two leptons (electrons or muons) is presented. These leptons can be of any avour or sign combination, with events being selected by imposing constraints on the Razor variables. The analysis is performed on the full 2011 dataset of proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy, totalling an integrated luminosity of 4 : 7 fb1, gathered by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. No signi cant devia- tion from the Standard Model expectation is observed. Exclusion limits are placed on the parameter space of Gauge Mediated supersymmetry, the constrained mini- mal supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model and simpli ed SUSY-inspired models. In addition the nature of noise bursts and sporadically noisy channels in the ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeter is studied. This includes the development of a tool for use by data quality experts at ATLAS to facilitate the identi cation and agging of cells su ering from sporadic noise. This results in an average of less than 0 : 001% of calorimeter cells being agged as sporadically noisy in each ATLAS run. The origin of the noise remains unknown, though is shown to display