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Search for new phenomena in events containing a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • iThemba Labs
  • Department of Physics
  • University of South Africa
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science Innovation and Research (MAScIR)
  • Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
  • NOVA University Lisbon
  • CERN
  • Mohamed I University
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • 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
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Belgrade
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • University of Salento
  • The University of Chicago
  • Columbia University

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Abstract

Two searches for new phenomena in final states containing a same-flavour opposite-sign lepton (electron or muon) pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum are presented. These searches make use of proton–proton collision data, collected during 2015 and 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy s=13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider, which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 14.7fb-1. Both searches target the pair production of supersymmetric particles, squarks or gluinos, which decay to final states containing a same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair via one of two mechanisms: a leptonically decaying Z boson in the final state, leading to a peak in the dilepton invariant-mass distribution around the Z boson mass; and decays of neutralinos (e.g. χ~20→ℓ+ℓ-χ~10), yielding a kinematic endpoint in the dilepton invariant-mass spectrum. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model expectation. Results are interpreted in simplified models of gluino-pair (squark-pair) production, and provide sensitivity to gluinos (squarks) with masses as large as 1.70 TeV (980 GeV).

Original languageEnglish
Article number144
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume77
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2017

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