Search for direct stau production in events with two hadronic τ-leptons in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

0534983 - FZÚ 2021 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abbott, D.C. - Chudoba, Jiří - Hejbal, Jiří - Hladík, Ondřej - Jačka, Petr - Jakoubek, Tomáš - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Lokajíček, Miloš - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Němeček, Stanislav - Penc, Ondřej - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2919 authors
Search for direct stau production in events with two hadronic τ-leptons in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector.
Physical Review D. Roč. 101, č. 3 (2020), s. 1-30, č. článku 032009. ISSN 2470-0010. E-ISSN 2470-0029
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ II - 90104
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : ATLAS * CERN * LHC * neutralino * tau * stau
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 5.296, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Open access

A search for the direct production of the supersymmetric partners of τ-leptons (staus) in final states with two hadronically decaying τ-leptons is presented. The analysis uses a dataset of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139  fb-1, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No significant deviation from the expected Standard Model background is observed. Limits are derived in scenarios of direct production of stau pairs with each stau decaying into the stable lightest neutralino and one τ-lepton in simplified models where the two stau mass eigenstates are degenerate. Stau masses from 120 GeV to 390 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for a massless lightest neutralino.

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