Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Search for New Phenomena in Final States with Two Leptons and One or No b -Tagged Jets at s =13 TeV Using 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
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Göttingen
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • University of Toronto
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Bogazici University
  • Istanbul University
  • University of Geneva
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • IFT-UAM/CSIC
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • McGill University
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Columbia University
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • University of Edinburgh

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

19 Scopus citations

Abstract

A search for new phenomena is presented in final states with two leptons and one or no b-tagged jets. The event selection requires the two leptons to have opposite charge, the same flavor (electrons or muons), and a large invariant mass. The analysis is based on the full run-2 proton-proton collision dataset recorded at a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb-1. No significant deviation from the expected background is observed in the data. Inspired by the B-meson decay anomalies, a four-fermion contact interaction between two quarks (b, s) and two leptons (ee or μμ) is used as a benchmark signal model, which is characterized by the energy scale and coupling, Λ and g∗, respectively. Contact interactions with Λ/g∗ lower than 2.0 (2.4) TeV are excluded for electrons (muons) at the 95% confidence level, still far below the value that is favored by the B-meson decay anomalies. Model-independent limits are set as a function of the minimum dilepton invariant mass, which allow the results to be reinterpreted in various signal scenarios.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberA56
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume127
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2021

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Search for New Phenomena in Final States with Two Leptons and One or No b -Tagged Jets at s =13 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this