Search for new non-resonant phenomena in high-mass dilepton final states with the ATLAS detector

0537107 - FZÚ 2021 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abbott, D.C. - Chudoba, Jiří - Hejbal, Jiří - Hladík, Ondřej - Jačka, Petr - 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 2927 authors
Search for new non-resonant phenomena in high-mass dilepton final states with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics. Roč. 2020, č. 11 (2020), s. 1-40, č. článku 005. ISSN 1029-8479. E-ISSN 1029-8479
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ II - 90104
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : ATLAS * CERN * LHC * Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) * dimuon * final state
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 5.810, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Open access

A search for new physics with non-resonant signals in dielectron and dimuon final states in the mass range above 2 TeV is presented. This is the first search for non-resonant signals in dilepton final states at the LHC to use a background estimate from the data. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1^{−1}−1, were recorded by the ATLAS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s sqrt{s} s ​ = 13 TeV during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. The benchmark signal signature is a two-quark and two-lepton contact interaction, which would enhance the dilepton event rate at the TeV mass scale. To model the contribution from background processes a functional form is fit to the dilepton invariant-mass spectra in data in a mass region below the region of interest. It is then extrapolated to a high-mass signal region to obtain the expected background there.
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