TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for top squarks in events with a Higgs or Z boson using 139 fb−1 of pp collision data at √s = 13 TeV with 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 - Strubig, A.
AU - Takeva, E.P.
AU - Taylor, A.J.
AU - Themistokleous, N.
AU - Villhauer, E.M.
PY - 2020/11/23
Y1 - 2020/11/23
N2 - This paper presents a search for direct top squark pair production in events with missing transverse momentum plus either a pair of jets consistent with Standard Model Higgs boson decay into b-quarks or a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair with an invariant mass consistent with a Z boson. The analysis is performed using the proton–proton collision data at √s = 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector during the LHC Run-2, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 . No excess is observed in the data above the Standard Model predictions. The results are interpreted in simplified models featuring direct production of pairs of either the lighter top squark (˜t1 ) or the heaviertop squark (˜t2 ), excluding at 95% confidence level ˜t1 and ˜t2 masses up to about 1220 and 875 GeV, respectively.
AB - This paper presents a search for direct top squark pair production in events with missing transverse momentum plus either a pair of jets consistent with Standard Model Higgs boson decay into b-quarks or a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair with an invariant mass consistent with a Z boson. The analysis is performed using the proton–proton collision data at √s = 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector during the LHC Run-2, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 . No excess is observed in the data above the Standard Model predictions. The results are interpreted in simplified models featuring direct production of pairs of either the lighter top squark (˜t1 ) or the heaviertop squark (˜t2 ), excluding at 95% confidence level ˜t1 and ˜t2 masses up to about 1220 and 875 GeV, respectively.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08469-8
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08469-8
M3 - Article
SN - 1434-6052
VL - 80
SP - 1
EP - 33
JO - The European Physical Journal C
JF - The European Physical Journal C
IS - 11
M1 - 1080
ER -