TY - JOUR

T1 - Search for new phenomena using the invariant mass distribution of same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pairs in events with missing transverse momentum in √s=13 Te pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

AU - Barton, Adam Edward

AU - Beattie, Michael

AU - Bertram, Iain Alexander

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

AU - Love, Peter Allan

AU - Muenstermann, Daniel Matthias Alfred

AU - Parker, Adam Jackson

AU - Skinner, Malcolm

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Tee, Amy

AU - Walder, James William

AU - Wharton, Andrew Mark

AU - Whitmore, Ben

AU - The ATLAS collaboration

PY - 2018/8/6

Y1 - 2018/8/6

N2 - A search for new phenomena in final states containing an e+e− or μ+μ− pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. This analysis makes use of proton–proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1, collected during 2015 and 2016 at a centreof-mass energy √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search targets the pair production of supersymmetric coloured particles (squarks or gluinos) and their decays into final states containing an e+e− or μ+μ− pair and the lightest neutralino (χ˜ 0 1 ) via one of two next-to-lightest neutralino (χ˜ 0 2 ) decay mechanisms: χ˜ 0 2 → Zχ˜ 0 1 , where the Z boson decays leptonically leading to a peak in the dilepton invariant mass distribution around the Z boson mass; and χ˜ 0 2 → +−χ˜ 0 1 with no intermediate +− resonance, yielding a kinematic endpoint in the dilepton invariant mass spectrum. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model expectation. Results are interpreted using simplified models, and exclude gluinos and squarks with masses as large as 1.85 and 1.3 TeV at 95% confidence level, respectively.

AB - A search for new phenomena in final states containing an e+e− or μ+μ− pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. This analysis makes use of proton–proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1, collected during 2015 and 2016 at a centreof-mass energy √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search targets the pair production of supersymmetric coloured particles (squarks or gluinos) and their decays into final states containing an e+e− or μ+μ− pair and the lightest neutralino (χ˜ 0 1 ) via one of two next-to-lightest neutralino (χ˜ 0 2 ) decay mechanisms: χ˜ 0 2 → Zχ˜ 0 1 , where the Z boson decays leptonically leading to a peak in the dilepton invariant mass distribution around the Z boson mass; and χ˜ 0 2 → +−χ˜ 0 1 with no intermediate +− resonance, yielding a kinematic endpoint in the dilepton invariant mass spectrum. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model expectation. Results are interpreted using simplified models, and exclude gluinos and squarks with masses as large as 1.85 and 1.3 TeV at 95% confidence level, respectively.

U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6081-9

DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6081-9

M3 - Journal article

VL - 78

JO - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields

JF - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields

SN - 1434-6044

IS - 8

M1 - 625

ER -