Search for new resonances in mass distributions of jet pairs using 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at √ s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal article

A search for new resonances decaying into a pair of jets is reported using the dataset of proton-proton collisions recorded at 𝑠√ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The distribution of the invariant mass of the two leading jets is examined for local excesses above a data-derived estimate of the Standard Model background. In addition to an inclusive dijet search, events with jets identified as containing b-hadrons are examined specifically. No significant excess of events above the smoothly falling background spectra is observed. The results are used to set cross-section upper limits at 95% confidence level on a range of new physics scenarios. Model-independent limits on Gaussian-shaped signals are also reported. The analysis looking at jets containing b-hadrons benefits from improvements in the jet flavour identification at high transverse momentum, which increases its sensitivity relative to the previous analysis beyond that expected from the higher integrated luminosity.

Authors: Frost, JA; Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abbott, DC; Ambroz, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Volume: 2020
• Issue: 3
• Article number: 145
• Publication date: 2020-03-25
• Acceptance date: 2020-02-17
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)145
• EISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN: 1126-6708
• Language: English
• Keywords: Exotics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Jets; FFR