TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for bottom-squark pair production in pp collision events at √s=13 TeV with hadronically decaying τ-leptons, b-jets, and missing transverse momentum using the ATLAS detector
AU - ATLAS Publications
AU - Clark, Philip James
AU - Farrington, Sinead
AU - Gao, Yanyan
AU - Leonidopoulos, Christos
AU - Martin, Victoria Jane
AU - Mijovic, Liza
AU - Wynne, Benjamin
AU - Carter, T.M.
AU - Faucci Giannelli, M.
AU - Hasib, A.
AU - Heath, M.P.
AU - Palazzo, S.
AU - Søgaard, A.
AU - Takeva, E.P.
AU - Taylor, A.J.
AU - Themistokleous, N.
AU - Villhauer, E.M.
PY - 2021/8/31
Y1 - 2021/8/31
N2 - A search for pair production of bottom squarks in events with hadronically decaying τ-leptons, b-tagged jets, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. The analyzed dataset is based on proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector from 2015 to 2018, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The observed data are compatible with the expected Standard Model background. Results are interpreted in a simplified model where each bottom squark is assumed to decay into the second-lightest neutralino ˜χ02 and a bottom quark, with ˜χ02 decaying into a Higgs boson and the lightest neutralino ˜χ01. The search focuses on final states where at least one Higgs boson decays into a pair of hadronically decaying τ-leptons. This allows the acceptance and thus the sensitivity to be significantly improved relative to the previous results at low masses of the ˜χ02, where bottom-squark masses up to 850 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, assuming a mass difference of 130 GeV between ˜χ02 and ˜χ01. Model-independent upper limits are also set on the cross section of processes beyond the Standard Model.
AB - A search for pair production of bottom squarks in events with hadronically decaying τ-leptons, b-tagged jets, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. The analyzed dataset is based on proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector from 2015 to 2018, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The observed data are compatible with the expected Standard Model background. Results are interpreted in a simplified model where each bottom squark is assumed to decay into the second-lightest neutralino ˜χ02 and a bottom quark, with ˜χ02 decaying into a Higgs boson and the lightest neutralino ˜χ01. The search focuses on final states where at least one Higgs boson decays into a pair of hadronically decaying τ-leptons. This allows the acceptance and thus the sensitivity to be significantly improved relative to the previous results at low masses of the ˜χ02, where bottom-squark masses up to 850 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, assuming a mass difference of 130 GeV between ˜χ02 and ˜χ01. Model-independent upper limits are also set on the cross section of processes beyond the Standard Model.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032014
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032014
M3 - Article
SN - 2470-0010
VL - 104
SP - 1
EP - 31
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 3
M1 - 032014
ER -