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Search for new phenomena in a lepton plus high jet multiplicity final state with the ATLAS experiment using √s=13 TeV proton-proton collision data

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Mohamed I University
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • University of Toronto
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • University of Oregon
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • The University of Tokyo
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Belgrade
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • University of Geneva
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • CERN
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • University of Salento

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Abstract

A search for new phenomena in final states characterized by high jet multiplicity, an isolated lepton (electron or muon) and either zero or at least three b-tagged jets is presented. The search uses 36.1 fb−1 of s=13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016. The dominant sources of background are estimated using parameterized extrapolations, based on observables at medium jet multiplicity, to predict the b-tagged jet multiplicity distribution at the higher jet multiplicities used in the search. No significant excess over the Standard Model expectation is observed and 95% confidence-level limits are extracted constraining four simplified models of R-parity-violating supersymmetry that feature either gluino or top-squark pair production. The exclusion limits reach as high as 2.1 TeV in gluino mass and 1.2 TeV in top-squark mass in the models considered. In addition, an upper limit is set on the cross-section for Standard Model tt¯ tt¯ production of 60 fb (6.5 × the Standard Model prediction) at 95% confidence level. Finally, model-independent limits are set on the contribution from new phenomena to the signal-region yields.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original languageEnglish
Article number88
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2017
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2017

Keywords

  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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