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1. Search for leptoquark pair production decaying into te-t¯e+ or tμ-t¯μ+ in multi-lepton final states in pp collisions at s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for leptoquark pair production decaying into te-t¯e+ or tμ-t¯μ+ in final states with multiple leptons is presented. The search is based on a dataset of pp collisions at s=13TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb-1. Four signal regions, with the requirement of at least three light leptons (electron or muon) and at least two jets out of which at least one jet is identified as coming from a b-hadron, are considered based on the number of leptons of a given flavour. The main background processes are estimated using dedicated control regions in a simultaneous fit with the signal regions to data. No excess above the Standard Model background prediction is observed and 95% confidence level limits on the production cross section times branching ratio are derived as a function of the leptoquark mass. Under the assumption of exclusive decays into te- (tμ-), the corresponding lower limit on the scalar mixed-generation leptoquark mass mLQmixd is at 1.58 (1.59) TeV and on the vector leptoquark mass mU~1 at 1.67 (1.67) TeV in the minimal coupling scenario and at 1.95 (1.95) TeV in the Yang–Mills scenario.
Published: 2024

2. Probing the CP nature of the top–Higgs Yukawa coupling in t t ¯ H and tH events with H → b b ¯ decays using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: The CP properties of the coupling between the Higgs boson and the top quark are investigated using 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV. The CP structure of the top quark–Higgs boson Yukawa coupling is probed in events with a Higgs boson decaying into a pair of b-quarks and produced in association with either a pair of top quarks, tt¯H, or a single top quark, tH. Events containing one or two electrons or muons are used for the measurement. Multivariate techniques are used to select regions enriched in tt¯H and tH events, where dedicated CP-sensitive observables are exploited. In an extension of the Standard Model (SM) with a CP-odd admixture in the top–Higgs Yukawa coupling, the mixing angle between CP-even and CP-odd couplings is measured to be α=11−73∘∘+52∘, compatible with the SM prediction corresponding to α=0.
Published: 2024

3. Study of Z→llγ decays at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Akesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: This paper presents a study of Z→llγ decays with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis uses a proton–proton data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb-1 collected at a centre-of-mass energy s = 8 TeV. Integrated fiducial cross-sections together with normalised differential fiducial cross-sections, sensitive to the kinematics of final-state QED radiation, are obtained. The results are found to be in agreement with state-of-the-art predictions for final-state QED radiation. First measurements of Z→llγγ decays are also reported.
Published: 2024

4. Search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles in the full LHC Run 2 pp collision data at s = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: A search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles is performed using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Data collected in 2015–2018 at s=13 TeV from pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 are examined. Particles producing anomalously high ionization, consistent with long-lived spin-½ massive particles with electric charges from |q|=2e to |q|=7e are searched for. No statistically significant evidence of such particles is observed, and 95% confidence level cross-section upper limits are calculated and interpreted as the lower mass limits for a Drell–Yan plus photon-fusion production mode. The least stringent limit, 1060 GeV, is obtained for |q|=2e particles, and the most stringent one, 1600 GeV, is for |q|=6e particles.
Published: 2023

5. Search for pair-production of vector-like quarks in pp collision events at s = 13 TeV with at least one leptonically decaying Z boson and a third-generation quark with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abud, A Abed, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akatsuka, S, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amoroso, S, Amrouche, CS, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: A search for the pair-production of vector-like quarks optimized for decays into a Z boson and a third-generation Standard Model quark is presented, using the full Run 2 dataset corresponding to 139fb−1 of pp collisions at s=13TeV, collected in 2015–2018 with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The targeted final state is characterized by the presence of a Z boson with high transverse momentum, reconstructed from a pair of same-flavour leptons with opposite-sign charges, as well as by the presence of b-tagged jets and high-transverse-momentum large-radius jets reconstructed from calibrated smaller-radius jets. Events with exactly two or at least three leptons are used, which are further categorized by the presence of boosted W, Z, and Higgs bosons and top quarks. The categorization is performed using a neural-network-based boosted object tagger to enhance the sensitivity to signal relative to the background. No significant excess above the background expectation is observed and exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are set on the masses of the vector-like partners T and B of the top and bottom quarks, respectively. The limits depend on the branching ratio configurations and, in the case of 100% branching ratio for T→Zt and 100% branching ratio for B→Zb, this search sets the most stringent limits to date, allowing mT>1.60TeV and mB>1.42TeV, respectively.
Published: 2023

6. Constraints on the Higgs boson self-coupling from single- and double-Higgs production with the ATLAS detector using pp collisions at s = 13 TeV

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: Constraints on the Higgs boson self-coupling are set by combining double-Higgs boson analyses in the bb¯bb¯, bb¯τ+τ− and bb¯γγ decay channels with single-Higgs boson analyses targeting the γγ, ZZ⁎, WW⁎, τ+τ− and bb¯ decay channels. The data used in these analyses were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 126–139 fb−1. The combination of the double-Higgs analyses sets an upper limit of μHH
Published: 2023

7. Measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the H → ZZ ⁎ → 4ℓ decay channel using 139 fb−1 of s = 13 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: The mass of the Higgs boson is measured in the H→ZZ⁎→4ℓ decay channel. The analysis uses proton–proton collision data from the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector between 2015 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The measured value of the Higgs boson mass is 124.99±0.18(stat.)±0.04(syst.) GeV. In final states with muons, this measurement benefits from an improved momentum-scale calibration relative to that adopted in previous publications. The measurement also employs an analytic model that takes into account the invariant-mass resolution of the four-lepton system on a per-event basis and the output of a deep neural network discriminating signal from background events. This measurement is combined with the corresponding measurement using 7 and 8 TeV pp collision data, resulting in a Higgs boson mass of 124.94±0.17(stat.)±0.03(syst.) GeV.
Published: 2023

8. Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in association with a photon with the ATLAS experiment

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: A measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair (tt¯) production in association with a photon is presented. The measurement is performed in the single-lepton tt¯ decay channel using proton–proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN at a centre-of-mass-energy of 13 TeV during the years 2015–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The charge asymmetry is obtained from the distribution of the difference of the absolute rapidities of the top quark and antiquark using a profile likelihood unfolding approach. It is measured to be AC=−0.003±0.029 in agreement with the Standard Model expectation.
Published: 2023

9. Observation of gauge boson joint-polarisation states in W ± Z production from pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: Measurements of joint-polarisation states of W and Z gauge bosons in W±Z production are presented. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The W±Z candidate events are reconstructed using leptonic decay modes of the gauge bosons into electrons and muons. The simultaneous pair-production of longitudinally polarised vector bosons is measured for the first time with a significance of 7.1 standard deviations. The measured joint helicity fractions integrated over the fiducial region are f00=0.067±0.010, f0T=0.110±0.029, fT0=0.179±0.023 and fTT=0.644±0.032, in agreement with the next-to-leading-order Standard Model predictions. Individual helicity fractions of the W and Z bosons are also measured and found to be consistent with joint helicity fractions within the expected amounts of correlation. Both the joint and individual helicity fractions are also measured separately in W+Z and W−Z events. Inclusive and differential cross sections for several kinematic observables sensitive to polarisation are presented.
Published: 2023

10. Search for flavour-changing neutral-current couplings between the top quark and the photon with the ATLAS detector at s = 13 TeV

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abud, A Abed, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Dos Santos, SP Amor, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: This letter documents a search for flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs), which are strongly suppressed in the Standard Model, in events with a photon and a top quark with the ATLAS detector. The analysis uses data collected in pp collisions at s=13 TeV during Run 2 of the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Both FCNC top-quark production and decay are considered. The final state consists of a charged lepton, missing transverse momentum, a b-tagged jet, one high-momentum photon and possibly additional jets. A multiclass deep neural network is used to classify events either as signal in one of the two categories, FCNC production or decay, or as background. No significant excess of events over the background prediction is observed and 95% CL upper limits are placed on the strength of left- and right-handed FCNC interactions. The 95% CL bounds on the branching fractions for the FCNC top-quark decays, estimated (expected) from both top-quark production and decay, are B(t→uγ)
Published: 2023

11. Search for Higgs boson pair production in association with a vector boson in pp collisions at s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: This paper reports a search for Higgs boson pair (hh) production in association with a vector boson (WorZ) using 139 fb - 1 of proton–proton collision data at s=13TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search is performed in final states in which the vector boson decays leptonically (W→ℓν,Z→ℓℓ,νν with ℓ= e, μ) and the Higgs bosons each decay into a pair of b-quarks. It targets Vhh signals from both non-resonant hh production, present in the Standard Model (SM), and resonant hh production, as predicted in some SM extensions. A 95% confidence-level upper limit of 183 (87) times the SM cross-section is observed (expected) for non-resonant Vhh production when assuming the kinematics are as expected in the SM. Constraints are also placed on Higgs boson coupling modifiers. For the resonant search, upper limits on the production cross-sections are derived for two specific models: one is the production of a vector boson along with a neutral heavy scalar resonance H, in the mass range 260–1000 GeV, that decays into hh, and the other is the production of a heavier neutral pseudoscalar resonance A that decays into a Z boson and H boson, where the A boson mass is 360–800 GeV and the H boson mass is 260–400 GeV. Constraints are also derived in the parameter space of two-Higgs-doublet models.
Published: 2023

12. Searches for new phenomena in events with two leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in 139 fb-1 of s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abud, A Abed, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, and Arce, ATH
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Searches for new phenomena inspired by supersymmetry in final states containing an e+e- or μ+μ- pair, jets, and missing transverse momentum are presented. These searches make use of proton–proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 139fb-1 , collected during 2015–2018 at a centre-of-mass energy s=13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Two searches target the pair production of charginos and neutralinos. One uses the recursive-jigsaw reconstruction technique to follow up on excesses observed in 36.1fb-1 of data, and the other uses conventional event variables. The third search targets pair production of coloured supersymmetric particles (squarks or gluinos) decaying through the next-to-lightest neutralino (χ~20) via a slepton (ℓ~) or Z boson into ℓ+ℓ-χ~10 , resulting in a kinematic endpoint or peak in the dilepton invariant mass spectrum. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model expectations. Results are interpreted using simplified models and exclude masses up to 900 GeV for electroweakinos, 1550 GeV for squarks, and 2250 GeV for gluinos.
Published: 2023

13. Measurements of observables sensitive to colour reconnection in tt¯ events with the ATLAS detector at s= 13 TeV

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A measurement of observables sensitive to effects of colour reconnection in top-quark pair-production events is presented using 139 fb - 1 of 13 TeV proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are selected by requiring exactly one isolated electron and one isolated muon with opposite charge and two or three jets, where exactly two jets are required to be b-tagged. For the selected events, measurements are presented for the charged-particle multiplicity, the scalar sum of the transverse momenta of the charged particles, and the same scalar sum in bins of charged-particle multiplicity. These observables are unfolded to the stable-particle level, thereby correcting for migration effects due to finite detector resolution, acceptance and efficiency effects. The particle-level measurements are compared with different colour reconnection models in Monte Carlo generators. These measurements disfavour some of the colour reconnection models and provide inputs to future optimisation of the parameters in Monte Carlo generators.
Published: 2023

14. Constraints on spin-0 dark matter mediators and invisible Higgs decays using ATLAS 13 TeV pp collision data with two top quarks and missing transverse momentum in the final state

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: This paper presents a statistical combination of searches targeting final states with two top quarks and invisible particles, characterised by the presence of zero, one or two leptons, at least one jet originating from a b-quark and missing transverse momentum. The analyses are searches for phenomena beyond the Standard Model consistent with the direct production of dark matter in pp collisions at the LHC, using 139 fb - 1 of data collected with the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The results are interpreted in terms of simplified dark matter models with a spin-0 scalar or pseudoscalar mediator particle. In addition, the results are interpreted in terms of upper limits on the Higgs boson invisible branching ratio, where the Higgs boson is produced according to the Standard Model in association with a pair of top quarks. For scalar (pseudoscalar) dark matter models, with all couplings set to unity, the statistical combination extends the mass range excluded by the best of the individual channels by 50 (25) GeV, excluding mediator masses up to 370 GeV. In addition, the statistical combination improves the expected coupling exclusion reach by 14% (24%), assuming a scalar (pseudoscalar) mediator mass of 10 GeV. An upper limit on the Higgs boson invisible branching ratio of 0.38 (0.30-0.09+0.13) is observed (expected) at 95% confidence level.
Published: 2023

15. A search for new resonances in multiple final states with a high transverse momentum Z boson in s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Particle and Resonance Production, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A generic search for resonances is performed with events containing a Z boson with transverse momentum greater than 100 GeV, decaying into e + e − or μ + μ −. The analysed data collected with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1. Two invariant mass distributions are examined for a localised excess relative to the expected Standard Model background in six independent event categories (and their inclusive sum) to increase the sensitivity. No significant excess is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are derived for two cases: a model-independent interpretation of Gaussian-shaped resonances with the mass width between 3% and 10% of the resonance mass, and a specific heavy vector triplet model with the decay mode W′ → ZW → ℓℓqq. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

16. Search for single vector-like B quark production and decay via B → bH(bb¯) in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Akatsuka, S, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amrouche, CS, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, Arguin, J-F, Argyropoulos, S, and Arling, J-H
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Vector-Like Quarks, Beyond Standard Model, Exotics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search is presented for single production of a vector-like B quark decaying into a Standard Model b-quark and a Standard Model Higgs boson, which decays into a (Formula presented.) pair. The search is carried out in 139 fb−1 of (Formula presented.) TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC between 2015 and 2018. No significant deviation from the Standard Model background prediction is observed, and mass-dependent exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the resonance production cross-section in several theoretical scenarios determined by the couplings cW, cZ and cH between the B quark and the Standard Model W, Z and Higgs bosons, respectively. For a vector-like B occurring as an isospin singlet, the search excludes values of cW greater than 0.45 for a B resonance mass (mB) between 1.0 and 1.2 TeV. For 1.2 TeV < mB< 2.0 TeV, cW values larger than 0.50–0.65 are excluded. If the B occurs as part of a (B, Y) doublet, the smallest excluded cZ coupling values range between 0.3 and 0.5 across the investigated resonance mass range 1.0 TeV < mB< 2.0 TeV.
Published: 2023

17. Evidence for the charge asymmetry in pp → tt¯ production at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Top Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Inclusive and differential measurements of the top–antitop (Formula presented.) charge asymmetry (Formula presented.) and the leptonic asymmetry (Formula presented.) are presented in proton–proton collisions at s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement uses the complete Run 2 dataset, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1, combines data in the single-lepton and dilepton channels, and employs reconstruction techniques adapted to both the resolved and boosted topologies. A Bayesian unfolding procedure is performed to correct for detector resolution and acceptance effects. The combined inclusive (Formula presented.) charge asymmetry is measured to be (Formula presented.), which differs from zero by 4.7 standard deviations. Differential measurements are performed as a function of the invariant mass, transverse momentum and longitudinal boost of the (Formula presented.) system. Both the inclusive and differential measurements are found to be compatible with the Standard Model predictions, at next-to-next-to-leading order in quantum chromodynamics perturbation theory with next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections. The measurements are interpreted in the framework of the Standard Model effective field theory, placing competitive bounds on several Wilson coefficients. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

18. Search for new phenomena in final states with photons, jets and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akatsuka, S, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, and Arcangeletti, C
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for new phenomena has been performed in final states with at least one isolated high-momentum photon, jets and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV. The data, collected by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The experimental results are interpreted in a supersymmetric model in which pair-produced gluinos decay into neutralinos, which in turn decay into a gravitino, at least one photon, and jets. No significant deviations from the predictions of the Standard Model are observed. Upper limits are set on the visible cross section due to physics beyond the Standard Model, and lower limits are set on the masses of the gluinos and neutralinos, all at 95% confidence level. Visible cross sections greater than 0.022 fb are excluded and pair-produced gluinos with masses up to 2200 GeV are excluded for most of the NLSP masses investigated. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

19. Search for boosted diphoton resonances in the 10 to 70 GeV mass range using 138 fb−1 of 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Beyond Standard Model, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for diphoton resonances in the mass range between 10 and 70 GeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is presented. The analysis is based on pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb −1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded from 2015 to 2018. Previous searches for diphoton resonances at the LHC have explored masses down to 65 GeV, finding no evidence of new particles. This search exploits the particular kinematics of events with pairs of closely spaced photons reconstructed in the detector, allowing examination of invariant masses down to 10 GeV. The presented strategy covers a region previously unexplored at hadron colliders because of the experimental challenges of recording low-energy photons and estimating the backgrounds. No significant excess is observed and the reported limits provide the strongest bound on promptly decaying axion-like particles coupling to gluons and photons for masses between 10 and 70 GeV. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

20. Search for dark matter produced in association with a dark Higgs boson decaying into W+W− in the one-lepton final state at s = 13 TeV using 139 fb−1 of pp collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Dark Matter, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the production of dark matter particles at the LHC. A search for dark matter particles produced in association with a dark Higgs boson decaying into W+ W− in the ℓ±νqq¯′, final states with ℓ = e, μ is presented. This analysis uses 139 fb −1 of pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The W± → qq′ ¯ decays are reconstructed from pairs of calorimeter-measured jets or from track-assisted reclustered jets, a technique aimed at resolving the dense topology from a pair of boosted quarks using jets in the calorimeter and tracking information. The observed data are found to agree with Standard Model predictions. Scenarios with dark Higgs boson masses ranging between 140 and 390 GeV are excluded. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

21. Search for heavy resonances decaying into a Z or W boson and a Higgs boson in final states with leptons and b-jets in 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, and Arce, ATH
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Beyond the Standard Model Searches, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: This article presents a search for new resonances decaying into a Z or W boson and a 125 GeV Higgs boson h, and it targets the νν¯ bb¯ , ℓ+ℓ−bb¯ , or ℓ±νbb¯ final states, where ℓ = e or μ, in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV. The data used correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the LHC at CERN. The search is conducted by examining the reconstructed invariant or transverse mass distributions of Zh or Wh candidates for evidence of a localised excess in the mass range from 220 GeV to 5 TeV. No significant excess is observed and 95% confidence-level upper limits between 1.3 pb and 0.3 fb are placed on the production cross section times branching fraction of neutral and charged spin-1 resonances and CP-odd scalar bosons. These limits are converted into constraints on the parameter space of the Heavy Vector Triplet model and the two-Higgs-doublet model. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

22. Measurements of W+W- production in decay topologies inspired by searches for electroweak supersymmetry

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: This paper presents a measurement of fiducial and differential cross-sections for W+W- production in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb - 1 . Events with exactly one electron, one muon and no hadronic jets are studied. The fiducial region in which the measurements are performed is inspired by searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric charginos decaying to two-lepton final states. The selected events have moderate values of missing transverse momentum and the ‘stransverse mass’ variable mT2 , which is widely used in searches for supersymmetry at the LHC. The ranges of these variables are chosen so that the acceptance is enhanced for direct W+W- production and suppressed for production via top quarks, which is treated as a background. The fiducial cross-section and particle-level differential cross-sections for six variables are measured and compared with two theoretical SM predictions from perturbative QCD calculations.
Published: 2023

23. Measurement of the total cross section and ρ-parameter from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: In a special run of the LHC with β⋆= 2.5 km, proton–proton elastic-scattering events were recorded at s=13 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 340μb-1 using the ALFA subdetector of ATLAS in 2016. The elastic cross section was measured differentially in the Mandelstam t variable in the range from - t= 2.5 · 10 - 4 GeV 2 to - t= 0.46 GeV 2 using 6.9 million elastic-scattering candidates. This paper presents measurements of the total cross section σtot , parameters of the nuclear slope, and the ρ -parameter defined as the ratio of the real part to the imaginary part of the elastic-scattering amplitude in the limit t→ 0 . These parameters are determined from a fit to the differential elastic cross section using the optical theorem and different parameterizations of the t-dependence. The results for σtot and ρ are σtot(pp→X)=104.7±1.1mb,ρ=0.098±0.011. The uncertainty in σtot is dominated by the luminosity measurement, and in ρ by imperfect knowledge of the detector alignment and by modelling of the nuclear amplitude.
Published: 2023

24. Differential tt¯ cross-section measurements using boosted top quarks in the all-hadronic final state with 139 fb−1 of ATLAS data

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akatsuka, S, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, and Arcangeletti, C
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Jet Substructure and Boosted Jets, Top Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Measurements of single-, double-, and triple-differential cross-sections are presented for boosted top-quark pair-production in 13 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The top quarks are observed through their hadronic decay and reconstructed as large-radius jets with the leading jet having transverse momentum (pT) greater than 500 GeV. The observed data are unfolded to remove detector effects. The particle-level cross-section, multiplied by the tt¯ → WWbb¯ branching fraction and measured in a fiducial phase space defined by requiring the leading and second-leading jets to have pT> 500 GeV and pT> 350 GeV, respectively, is 331 ± 3(stat.) ± 39(syst.) fb. This is approximately 20% lower than the prediction of 398−49+48 fb by Powheg+Pythia 8 with next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy but consistent within the theoretical uncertainties. Results are also presented at the parton level, where the effects of top-quark decay, parton showering, and hadronization are removed such that they can be compared with fixed-order next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) calculations. The parton-level cross-section, measured in a fiducial phase space similar to that at particle level, is 1.94 ± 0.02(stat.) ± 0.25(syst.) pb. This agrees with the NNLO prediction of 1.96−0.17+0.02 pb. Reasonable agreement with the differential cross-sections is found for most NLO models, while the NNLO calculations are generally in better agreement with the data. The differential cross-sections are interpreted using a Standard Model effective field-theory formalism and limits are set on Wilson coefficients of several four-fermion operators. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

25. Measurement of the nuclear modification factor of b-jets in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: This paper presents a measurement of b-jet production in Pb+Pb and pp collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The measurement uses 260 pb - 1 of pp collisions collected in 2017 and 1.4 nb - 1 of Pb+Pb collisions collected in 2018. In both collision systems, jets are reconstructed via the anti- kt algorithm. The b-jets are identified from a sample of jets containing muons from the semileptonic decay of b-quarks using template fits of the muon momentum relative to the jet axis. In pp collisions, b-jets are reconstructed for radius parameters R= 0.2 and R= 0.4 , and only R= 0.2 jets are used in Pb+Pb collisions. For comparison, inclusive R= 0.2 jets are also measured using 1.7 nb - 1 of Pb+Pb collisions collected in 2018 and the same pp collision data as the b-jet measurement. The nuclear modification factor, RAA , is calculated for both b-jets and inclusive jets with R= 0.2 over the transverse momentum range of 80–290 GeV. The nuclear modification factor for b-jets decreases from peripheral to central collisions. The ratio of the b-jet RAA to inclusive jet RAA is also presented and suggests that the RAA for b-jets is larger than that for inclusive jets in central Pb+Pb collisions. The measurements are compared with theoretical calculations and suggest a role for mass and colour-charge effects in partonic energy loss in heavy-ion collisions.
Published: 2023

26. Measurement of the top-quark mass using a leptonic invariant mass in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adachi, S, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Adelman, J, Adersberger, M, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Akatsuka, S, Åkesson, TPA, Akilli, E, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allen, BW, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alshehri, AA, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amrouche, CS, An, F, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, JK, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anelli, CR, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aperio Bella, L, Araque, JP, Araujo Ferraz, V, Araujo Pereira, R, Arcangeletti, C, and Arce, ATH
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Top Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A measurement of the top-quark mass (mt) in the tt¯ → lepton + jets channel is presented, with an experimental technique which exploits semileptonic decays of b-hadrons produced in the top-quark decay chain. The distribution of the invariant mass mℓμ of the lepton, ℓ (with ℓ = e, μ), from the W-boson decay and the muon, μ, originating from the b-hadron decay is reconstructed, and a binned-template profile likelihood fit is performed to extract mt. The measurement is based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1 of s = 13 TeV pp collisions provided by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector. The measured value of the top-quark mass is mt = 174.41 ± 0.39 (stat.) ± 0.66 (syst.) ± 0.25 (recoil) GeV, where the third uncertainty arises from changing the Pythia8 parton shower gluon-recoil scheme, used in top-quark decays, to a recently developed setup. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

27. Measurement of the CP properties of Higgs boson interactions with τ-leptons with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A study of the charge conjugation and parity (CP) properties of the interaction between the Higgs boson and τ -leptons is presented. The study is based on a measurement of CP -sensitive angular observables defined by the visible decay products of τ -leptons produced in Higgs boson decays. The analysis uses 139 fb- 1of proton–proton collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Contributions from CP -violating interactions between the Higgs boson and τ -leptons are described by a single mixing angle parameter ϕτin the generalised Yukawa interaction. Without constraining the H→ ττ signal strength to its expected value under the Standard Model hypothesis, the mixing angle ϕτis measured to be 9∘± 16∘, with an expected value of 0∘± 28∘at the 68% confidence level. The pure CP -odd hypothesis is disfavoured at a level of 3.4 standard deviations. The results are compatible with the predictions for the Higgs boson in the Standard Model.
Published: 2023

28. Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark and an energetic W boson in s= 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: This paper presents a search for dark matter, χ , using events with a single top quark and an energetic W boson. The analysis is based on proton–proton collision data collected with the ATLAS experiment at s= 13 TeV during LHC Run 2 (2015–2018), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb - 1 . The search considers final states with zero or one charged lepton (electron or muon), at least one b-jet and large missing transverse momentum. In addition, a result from a previous search considering two-charged-lepton final states is included in the interpretation of the results. The data are found to be in good agreement with the Standard Model predictions and the results are interpreted in terms of 95% confidence-level exclusion limits in the context of a class of dark matter models involving an extended two-Higgs-doublet sector together with a pseudoscalar mediator particle. The search is particularly sensitive to on-shell production of the charged Higgs boson state, H± , arising from the two-Higgs-doublet mixing, and its semi-invisible decays via the mediator particle, a: H±→ W±a(→ χχ) . Signal models with H± masses up to 1.5 TeV and a masses up to 350 GeV are excluded assuming a tan β value of 1. For masses of a of 150 (250) GeV, tan β values up to 2 are excluded for H± masses between 200 (400) GeV and 1.5 TeV. Signals with tan β values between 20 and 30 are excluded for H± masses between 500 and 800 GeV.
Published: 2023

29. Search for doubly charged Higgs boson production in multi-lepton final states using 139 fb-1 of proton–proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for pair production of doubly charged Higgs bosons (H± ±), each decaying into a pair of prompt, isolated, and highly energetic leptons with the same electric charge, is presented. The search uses a proton–proton collision data sample at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb - 1 recorded by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This analysis focuses on same-charge leptonic decays, H±±→ℓ±ℓ′± where ℓ,ℓ′=e,μ,τ , in two-, three-, and four-lepton channels, but only considers final states which include electrons or muons. No evidence of a signal is observed. Corresponding upper limits on the production cross-section of a doubly charged Higgs boson are derived, as a function of its mass m(H± ±) , at 95% confidence level. Assuming that the branching ratios to each of the possible leptonic final states are equal, B(H± ±→ e±e±) = B(H± ±→ e±μ±) = B(H± ±→ μ±μ±) = B(H± ±→ e±τ±) = B(H± ±→ μ±τ±) = B(H± ±→ τ±τ±) = 1 / 6 , the observed (expected) lower limit on the mass of a doubly charged Higgs boson is 1080 GeV (1065 GeV) within the left-right symmetric type-II seesaw model, which is the strongest limit to date produced by the ATLAS Collaboration. Additionally, this paper provides the first direct test of the Zee–Babu neutrino mass model at the LHC, yielding an observed (expected) lower limit of m(H± ±) = 900 GeV (880 GeV).
Published: 2023

30. Measurement of exclusive pion pair production in proton–proton collisions at s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: The exclusive production of pion pairs in the process pp→ ppπ+π- has been measured at s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, using 80μb-1 of low-luminosity data. The pion pairs were detected in the ATLAS central detector while outgoing protons were measured in the forward ATLAS ALFA detector system. This represents the first use of proton tagging to measure an exclusive hadronic final state at the LHC. A cross-section measurement is performed in two kinematic regions defined by the proton momenta, the pion rapidities and transverse momenta, and the pion–pion invariant mass. Cross-section values of 4.8±1.0(stat)-0.2+0.3(syst)μb and 9±6(stat)-2+2(syst)μb are obtained in the two regions; they are compared with theoretical models and provide a demonstration of the feasibility of measurements of this type.
Published: 2023

31. Search for direct pair production of sleptons and charginos decaying to two leptons and neutralinos with mass splittings near the W-boson mass in s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Supersymmetry, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for the electroweak production of pairs of charged sleptons or charginos decaying into two-lepton final states with missing transverse momentum is presented. Two simplified models of R-parity-conserving supersymmetry are considered: direct pair-production of sleptons (ℓ~ ℓ~) , with each decaying into a charged lepton and a χ~10 neutralino, and direct pair-production of the lightest charginos (χ~1±χ~1∓) , with each decaying into a W-boson and a χ~10 . The lightest neutralino (χ~10) is assumed to be the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). The analyses target the experimentally challenging mass regions where m(ℓ~)−m(χ~10) and m(χ~1±)−m(χ~10) are close to the W-boson mass (‘moderately compressed’ regions). The search uses 139 fb −1 of s = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excesses over the expected background are observed. Exclusion limits on the simplified models under study are reported in the (ℓ~χ~10) and (χ~1±χ~10) mass planes at 95% confidence level (CL). Sleptons with masses up to 150 GeV are excluded at 95% CL for the case of a mass-splitting between sleptons and the LSP of 50 GeV. Chargino masses up to 140 GeV are excluded at 95% CL for the case of a mass-splitting between the chargino and the LSP down to about 100 GeV. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

32. Measurement of electroweak Zνν¯γjj production and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Electroweak Interaction, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: The electroweak production of Z(νν¯) γ in association with two jets is studied in a regime with a photon of high transverse momentum above 150 GeV using proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis uses a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector during the 2015–2018 LHC data-taking period. This process is an important probe of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism in the Standard Model and is sensitive to quartic gauge boson couplings via vector-boson scattering. The fiducial Z(νν¯) γjj cross section for electroweak production is measured to be 0.77−0.30+0.34 fb and is consistent with the Standard Model prediction. Evidence of electroweak Z(νν¯) γjj production is found with an observed significance of 3.2σ for the background-only hypothesis, compared with an expected significance of 3.7σ. The combination of this result with the previously published ATLAS observation of electroweak Z(νν¯) γjj production yields an observed (expected) signal significance of 6.3σ (6.6σ). Limits on anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings are obtained in the framework of effective field theory with dimension-8 operators. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

33. Cross-section measurements for the production of a Z boson in association with high-transverse-momentum jets in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Electroweak Interaction, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Cross-section measurements for a Z boson produced in association with high-transverse-momentum jets (p T ≥ 100 GeV) and decaying into a charged-lepton pair (e + e − , μ + μ −) are presented. The measurements are performed using proton–proton collisions at s = 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1 collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Measurements of angular correlations between the Z boson and the closest jet are performed in events with at least one jet with p T ≥ 500 GeV. Event topologies of particular interest are the collinear emission of a Z boson in dijet events and a boosted Z boson recoiling against a jet. Fiducial cross sections are compared with state-of-the-art theoretical predictions. The data are found to agree with next-to-next-to-leading-order predictions by NNLOjet and with the next-to-leading-order multi-leg generators MadGraph5_aMC@NLO and Sherpa. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

34. Measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel in proton–proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Top Physics, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel is performed in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1. The analysis is performed on events with an electron or muon, missing transverse momentum and exactly two b-tagged jets in the final state. A discriminant based on matrix element calculations is used to separate single-top-quark s-channel events from the main background contributions, which are top-quark pair production and W-boson production in association with jets. The observed (expected) signal significance over the background-only hypothesis is 3.3 (3.9) standard deviations, and the measured cross-section is σ=8.2−2.9+3.5 pb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction of σSM=10.32−0.36+0.40 pb. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

35. Search for light long-lived neutral particles that decay to collimated pairs of leptons or light hadrons in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, and Arce, ATH
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Exotics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for light long-lived neutral particles with masses in the O(MeV–GeV) range is presented. The analysis targets the production of long-lived dark photons in the decay of a Higgs boson produced via gluon–gluon fusion or in association with a W boson. Events that contain displaced collimated Standard Model fermions reconstructed in the calorimeter or muon spectrometer are selected in 139 fb−1 of s = 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Background estimates for contributions from Standard Model processes and instrumental effects are extracted from data. The observed event yields are consistent with the expected background. Exclusion limits are reported on the production cross-section times branching fraction as a function of the mean proper decay length cτ of the dark photon, or as a function of the dark-photon mass and kinetic mixing parameter that quantifies the coupling between the Standard Model and potential hidden (dark) sectors. A Higgs boson branching fraction above 1% is excluded at 95% CL for a Higgs boson decaying into two dark photons for dark-photon mean proper decay lengths between 10 mm and 250 mm and dark photons with masses between 0.4 GeV and 2 GeV. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

36. Measurement of the tt¯ production cross-section in pp collisions at s = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Top Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: The inclusive top-quark pair (tt¯) production cross-section σtt¯ is measured in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s = 5.02 TeV, using 257 pb−1 of data collected in 2017 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The tt¯ cross-section is measured in both the dilepton and single-lepton final states of the tt¯ system and then combined. The combination of the two measurements yields σtt¯=67.5±0.9(stat.)±2.3(syst.)±1.1(lumi.)±0.2(beam)pb, where the four uncertainties reflect the limited size of the data sample, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, and imperfect knowledge of both the integrated luminosity and the LHC beam energy, giving a total uncertainty of 3.9%. The result is in agreement with theoretical quantum chromodynamic calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant, including the resummation of next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic soft-gluon terms, and constrains the parton distribution functions of the proton at large Bjorken-x. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

37. Search for long-lived, massive particles in events with displaced vertices and multiple jets in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Supersymmetry, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for long-lived particles decaying into hadrons is presented. The analysis uses 139 fb−1 of pp collision data collected at s = 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the LHC using events that contain multiple energetic jets and a displaced vertex. The search employs dedicated reconstruction techniques that significantly increase the sensitivity to long-lived particles decaying in the ATLAS inner detector. Background estimates for Standard Model processes and instrumental effects are extracted from data. The observed event yields are compatible with those expected from background processes. The results are used to set limits at 95% confidence level on model-independent cross sections for processes beyond the Standard Model, and on scenarios with pair-production of supersymmetric particles with long-lived electroweakinos that decay via a small R-parity-violating coupling. The pair-production of electroweakinos with masses below 1.5 TeV is excluded for mean proper lifetimes in the range from 0.03 ns to 1 ns. When produced in the decay of m(g~) = 2.4 TeV gluinos, electroweakinos with m(χ~10) = 1.5 TeV are excluded with lifetimes in the range of 0.02 ns to 4 ns. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

38. Exclusive dielectron production in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV with ATLAS

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Heavy Ion Experiments, Heavy-Ion Collision, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Exclusive production of dielectron pairs, γγ → e + e −, is studied using Lint = 1.72 nb−1 of data from ultraperipheral collisions of lead nuclei at sNN = 5.02 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The process of interest proceeds via photon–photon interactions in the strong electromagnetic fields of relativistic lead nuclei. Dielectron production is measured in the fiducial region defined by following requirements: electron transverse momentum pTe > 2.5 GeV, absolute electron pseudorapidity |η e | < 2.5, dielectron invariant mass mee > 5 GeV, and dielectron transverse momentum pTee < 2 GeV. Differential cross-sections are measured as a function of mee, average pTe , absolute dielectron rapidity |yee|, and scattering angle in the dielectron rest frame, |cos θ *|, in the inclusive sample, and also with a requirement of no activity in the forward direction. The total integrated fiducial cross-section is measured to be 215±1(stat.)−20+23(syst.)±4(lumi.) μb. Within experimental uncertainties the measured integrated cross-section is in good agreement with the QED predictions from the Monte Carlo programs Starlight and SuperChic, confirming the broad features of the initial photon fluxes. The differential cross-sections show systematic differences from these predictions which are more pronounced at high |yee | and |cos θ * | values. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

39. Search for flavour-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark and the Higgs boson in events with a pair of τ-leptons in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Higgs Physics, Top Physics, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) tqH interactions involving a top quark, another up-type quark (q = u, c), and a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson decaying into a τ-lepton pair (H → τ + τ −) is presented. The search is based on a dataset of pp collisions at s = 13 TeV that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1 recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Two processes are considered: single top quark FCNC production in association with a Higgs boson (pp → tH), and top quark pair production in which one of top quarks decays into Wb and the other decays into qH through the FCNC interactions. The search selects events with two hadronically decaying τ-lepton candidates (τ had) or at least one τ had with an additional lepton (e, μ), as well as multiple jets. Event kinematics is used to separate signal from the background through a multivariate discriminant. A slight excess of data is observed with a significance of 2.3σ above the expected SM background, and 95% CL upper limits on the t → qH branching ratios are derived. The observed (expected) 95% CL upper limits set on the t → cH and t → uH branching ratios are 9.4×10−4(4.8−1.4+2.2×10−4) and 6.9×10−4(3.5−1.0+1.5×10−4) , respectively. The corresponding combined observed (expected) upper limits on the dimension-6 operator Wilson coefficients in the effective tqH couplings are Ccϕ < 1.35 (0.97) and Cuϕ < 1.16 (0.82). [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

40. Search for resonant and non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯τ+τ− decay channel using 13 TeV pp collision data from the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akatsuka, S, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, and Arcangeletti, C
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Higgs Physics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Proton-Proton Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for Higgs boson pair production in events with two b-jets and two τ-leptons is presented, using a proton–proton collision dataset with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1 collected at s = 13 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Higgs boson pairs produced non-resonantly or in the decay of a narrow scalar resonance in the mass range from 251 to 1600 GeV are targeted. Events in which at least one τ-lepton decays hadronically are considered, and multivariate discriminants are used to reject the backgrounds. No significant excess of events above the expected background is observed in the non-resonant search. The largest excess in the resonant search is observed at a resonance mass of 1 TeV, with a local (global) significance of 3.1σ (2.0σ). Observed (expected) 95% confidence-level upper limits are set on the non-resonant Higgs boson pair-production cross-section at 4.7 (3.9) times the Standard Model prediction, assuming Standard Model kinematics, and on the resonant Higgs boson pair-production cross-section at between 21 and 900 fb (12 and 840 fb), depending on the mass of the narrow scalar resonance. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

41. Search for resonant WZ production in the fully leptonic final state in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Hoffman, AC Abusleme, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Bourdarios, C Adam, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Khoury, K Al, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Verzini, MJ Alconada, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Camelia, E Alunno, Estevez, M Alvarez, Alviggi, MG, Coutinho, Y Amaral, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Santos, SP Amor Dos, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Pozo, JA Aparisi, Aparo, MA, Bella, L Aperio, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Ferraz, V Araujo, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, JF
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for a WZ resonance, in the fully leptonic final state (electrons or muons), is performed using 139 fb - 1 of data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The results are interpreted in terms of a singly charged Higgs boson of the Georgi–Machacek model, produced by WZ fusion, and of a Heavy Vector Triplet, with the resonance produced by WZ fusion or the Drell–Yan process. No significant excess over the Standard Model prediction is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section times branching ratio as a function of the resonance mass for these processes.
Published: 2023

42. Search for high-mass Wγ and Zγ resonances using hadronic W/Z boson decays from 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akatsuka, S, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, and Arcangeletti, C
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for high-mass charged and neutral bosons decaying to Wγ and Zγ final states is presented in this paper. The analysis uses a data sample of s = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1 collected by the ATLAS detector during LHC Run 2 operation. The sensitivity of the search is determined using models of the production and decay of spin-1 charged bosons and spin-0/2 neutral bosons. The range of resonance masses explored extends from 1.0 TeV to 6.8 TeV. At these high resonance masses, it is beneficial to target the hadronic decays of the W and Z bosons because of their large branching fractions. The decay products of the high-momentum W/Z bosons are strongly collimated and boosted-boson tagging techniques are employed to improve the sensitivity. No evidence of a signal above the Standard Model backgrounds is observed, and upper limits on the production cross-sections of these bosons times their branching fractions to Wγ and Zγ are derived for various boson production models. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

43. Measurements of Zγ+jets differential cross sections in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Bioengineering, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Differential cross-section measurements of Zγ production in association with hadronic jets are presented, using the full 139 fb −1 dataset of s = 13 TeV proton–proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the LHC. Distributions are measured using events in which the Z boson decays leptonically and the photon is usually radiated from an initial-state quark. Measurements are made in both one and two observables, including those sensitive to the hard scattering in the event and others which probe additional soft and collinear radiation. Different Standard Model predictions, from both parton-shower Monte Carlo simulation and fixed-order QCD calculations, are compared with the measurements. In general, good agreement is observed between data and predictions from MATRIX and MiNNLOPS, as well as next-to-leading-order predictions from MadGraph5_aMC@NLO and Sherpa. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

44. Search for a new Z′ gauge boson in 4μ events with the ATLAS experiment

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: This paper presents a search for a new Z′ vector gauge boson with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using pp collision data collected at s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1. The new gauge boson Z′ is predicted by Lμ − Lτ models to address observed phenomena that can not be explained by the Standard Model. The search examines the four-muon (4μ) final state, using a deep learning neural network classifier to separate the Z′ signal from the Standard Model background events. The di-muon invariant masses in the 4μ events are used to extract the Z′ resonance signature. No significant excess of events is observed over the predicted background. Upper limits at a 95% confidence level on the Z′ production cross-section times the decay branching fraction of pp → Z′μμ → 4μ are set from 0.31 to 4.3 fb for the Z′ mass ranging from 5 to 81 GeV. The corresponding common coupling strengths, gZ′, of the Z′ boson to the second and third generation leptons above 0.003 – 0.2 have been excluded. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

45. Search for third-generation vector-like leptons in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Tau Physics, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for vector-like leptons in multilepton (two, three, or four-or-more electrons plus muons) final states with zero or more hadronic τ-lepton decays is presented. The search is performed using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. To maximize the separation of signal and background, a machine-learning classifier is used. No excess of events is observed beyond the Standard Model expectation. Using a doublet vector-like lepton model, vector-like leptons coupling to third-generation Standard Model leptons are excluded in the mass range from 130 GeV to 900 GeV at the 95% confidence level, while the highest excluded mass is expected to be 970 GeV. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

46. Search for new phenomena in multi-body invariant masses in events with at least one isolated lepton and two jets using s = 13 TeV proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Aly, M, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Amerl, M, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Particle and Resonance Production, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for resonances in events with at least one isolated lepton (e or μ) and two jets is performed using 139 fb −1 of s = 13 TeV proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Deviations from a smoothly falling background hypothesis are tested in three- and four-body invariant mass distributions constructed from leptons and jets, including jets identified as originating from bottom quarks. Model-independent limits on generic resonances characterised by cascade decays of particles leading to multiple jets and leptons in the final state are presented. The limits are calculated using Gaussian shapes with different widths for the invariant masses. The multi-body invariant masses are also used to set 95% confidence level upper limits on the cross-section times branching ratios for the production and subsequent decay of resonances predicted by several new physics scenarios. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Published: 2023

47. Search for tt¯H/A→tt¯tt¯ production in the multilepton final state in proton–proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Top Physics, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for a new heavy scalar or pseudo-scalar Higgs boson (H/A) produced in association with a pair of top quarks, with the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of top quarks (H/A → tt¯) is reported. The search targets a final state with exactly two leptons with same-sign electric charges or at least three leptons. The analysed dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1 of proton–proton collisions collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Two multivariate classifiers are used to separate the signal from the background. No significant excess of events over the Standard Model expectation is observed. The results are interpreted in the context of a type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. The observed (expected) upper limits at 95% confidence level on the tt¯ H/ A production cross-section times the branching ratio of H/A → tt¯ range between 14 (10) fb and 6 (5) fb for a heavy Higgs boson with mass between 400 GeV and 1000 GeV, respectively. Assuming that only one particle, either the scalar H or the pseudo-scalar A, contributes to the tt¯ tt¯ final state, values of tan β below 1.2 or 0.5 are excluded for a mass of 400 GeV or 1000 GeV, respectively. These exclusion ranges increase to tan β below 1.6 or 0.6 when both particles are considered. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

48. Search for pair-produced scalar and vector leptoquarks decaying into third-generation quarks and first- or second-generation leptons in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, Arena, E, and Arguin, J-F
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Exotics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for pair-produced scalar and vector leptoquarks decaying into quarks and leptons of different generations is presented. It uses the full LHC Run 2 (2015–2018) data set of 139 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV. Scalar leptoquarks with charge −(1/3)e as well as scalar and vector leptoquarks with charge +(2/3)e are considered. All possible decays of the pair-produced leptoquarks into quarks of the third generation (t, b) and charged or neutral leptons of the first or second generation (e, μ, ν) with exactly one electron or muon in the final state are investigated. No significant deviations from the Standard Model expectation are observed. Upper limits on the production cross-section are provided for eight models as a function of the leptoquark mass and the branching ratio of the leptoquark into the charged or neutral lepton. In addition, lower limits on the leptoquark masses are derived for all models across a range of branching ratios. Two of these models have the goal of providing an explanation for the recent B-anomalies. In both models, a vector leptoquark decays into charged and neutral leptons of the second generation with a similar branching fraction. Lower limits of 1980 GeV and 1710 GeV are set on the leptoquark mass for these two models. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

49. A search for heavy Higgs bosons decaying into vector bosons in same-sign two-lepton final states in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Higgs Physics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Proton-Proton Scattering, Mathematical Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for heavy Higgs bosons produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into a pair of vector bosons is performed in final states with two leptons (electrons or muons) of the same electric charge, missing transverse momentum and jets. A data sample of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018 is used. The data correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1. The observed data are in agreement with Standard Model background expectations. The results are interpreted using higher-dimensional operators in an effective field theory. Upper limits on the production cross-section are calculated at 95% confidence level as a function of the heavy Higgs boson’s mass and coupling strengths to vector bosons. Limits are set in the Higgs boson mass range from 300 to 1500 GeV, and depend on the assumed couplings. The highest excluded mass for a heavy Higgs boson with the coupling combinations explored is 900 GeV. Limits on coupling strengths are also provided. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

50. Search for a new scalar resonance in flavour-changing neutral-current top-quark decays t → qX (q = u, c), with X →bb¯, in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abeling, K, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC, Acharya, BS, Achkar, B, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Addepalli, SV, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Agarwala, J, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmad, A, Ahmadov, F, Ahmed, WS, Ahuja, S, Ai, X, Aielli, G, Aizenberg, I, Akbiyik, M, Åkesson, TPA, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Albicocco, P, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alfonsi, F, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Ali, S, Aliev, M, Alimonti, G, Alkakhi, W, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alunno Camelia, E, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Amelung, C, Ames, CG, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amos, KR, Amrouche, CS, Ananiev, V, Anastopoulos, C, Andeen, T, Anders, JK, Andrean, SY, Andreazza, A, Angelidakis, S, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antipov, E, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aoki, T, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aparo, MA, Aperio Bella, L, Appelt, C, Aranzabal, N, Araujo Ferraz, V, Arcangeletti, C, Arce, ATH, and Arena, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: A search for flavour-changing neutral-current decays of a top quark into an up-type quark (either up or charm) and a light scalar particle X decaying into a bottom anti-bottom quark pair is presented. The search focuses on top-quark pair production where one top quark decays to qX, with X → bb¯ , and the other top quark decays according to the Standard Model, with the W boson decaying leptonically. The final state is thus characterised by an isolated electron or muon and at least four jets. Events are categorised according to the multiplicity of jets and jets tagged as originating from b-quarks, and a neural network is used to discriminate between signal and background processes. The data analysed correspond to 139 fb −1 of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The 95% confidence-level upper limits between 0.019% and 0.062% are derived for the branching fraction B (t → uX) and between 0.018% and 0.078% for the branching fraction B (t → cX), for masses of the scalar particle X between 20 and 160 GeV. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2023

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