Searches for third-generation squark production in fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

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Searches for third-generation squarks in fully hadronic final states are presented using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.4 or 19.7 inverse femtobarns, collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC.

• Three mutually exclusive searches are presented, each optimized for a different decay topology.
• They include a multijet search requiring one fully reconstructed top quark, a dijet search requiring one or two jets originating from b quarks, and a monojet search.
• No excesses above the standard model expectations are seen, and limits are set on top and bottom squark production in the context of simplified models of supersymmetry.