%0 Journal Article
%T Search for new non-resonant phenomena in high-mass dilepton final states with the ATLAS detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo, F. L.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Escobar, C.
%A Estrada Pastor, O.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fullana Torregrosa, E.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
%A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
%A Madaffari, D.
%A Mamuzic, J.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Martinez Agullo, P.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Poveda, J.
%A Rodriguez Bosca, S.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Salt, J.
%A Santra, A.
%A Sayago Galvan, I.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J Journal of High Energy Physics
%D 2020
%V 11
%N 11
%I Springer
%@ 1029-8479
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2020
%O WOS:000587301500001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4597), last updated on Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:35:47 +0000
%X 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), were recorded by the ATLAS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of root 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. No significant deviation from the expected background is observed in the data. Upper limits at 95% CL on the number of events and the visible cross-section times branching fraction for processes involving new physics are provided. Observed (expected) 95% CL lower limits on the contact interaction energy scale reach 35.8 (37.6) TeV.
%K Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
%R 10.1007/JHEP11(2020)005
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12946
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2020)005
%P 005-41pp