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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
T2 - European Physical Journal C
AU - Collaboration, ATLAS
AU - Barton, A.E.
AU - Bertram, I.A.
AU - Borissov, G.
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.
AU - Fox, H.
AU - Henderson, R.C.W.
AU - Jones, R.W.L.
AU - Kartvelishvili, V.
AU - Long, R.E.
AU - Love, P.A.
AU - Muenstermann, D.
AU - Parker, A.J.
AU - Sanderswood, Izaac
AU - Smizanska, M.
AU - Tee, A.S.
AU - Walder, J.
AU - Wharton, A.M.
AU - Whitmore, B.W.
AU - Yexley, Melissa
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 (t~1) or the heavier top squark (t~2), excluding at 95% confidence level t~1 and t~2 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 (t~1) or the heavier top squark (t~2), excluding at 95% confidence level t~1 and t~2 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 - Journal article
VL - 80
JO - Eur. Phys. J. C
JF - Eur. Phys. J. C
SN - 1434-6044
IS - 11
M1 - 1080
ER -