Search for the pair production of third-generation squarks with two-body decays to a bottom or charm quark and a neutralino in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

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Results are presented from a search for the pair production of third-generation squarks in proton-proton collision events with two-body decays to bottom or charm quarks and a neutralino, which produces a significant imbalance in the transverse momentum.

• The search is performed using a sample of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 inverse femtobarns.
• No statistically significant excess of events is observed beyond the expected contribution from standard model processes.
• Exclusion limits are set in the context of simplified models of bottom or top squark pair production.