%0 Journal Article
%T Search for bottom-squark pair production in pp collision events at root s=13 TeV with hadronically decaying tau-leptons, b-jets, and missing transverse momentum using the ATLAS detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Cardillo, F.
%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 Mamuzic, J.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Martinez Agullo, P.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Poveda, J.
%A Prades Ibañez, A.
%A Rodriguez Bosca, S.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Sabatini, P.
%A Salt, J.
%A Santra, A.
%A Sayago Galvan, I.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Villaplana Perez, M.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physical Review D
%D 2021
%V 104
%N 3
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 2470-0010
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2021
%O WOS:000692081200002
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4960), last updated on Fri, 17 Sep 2021 07:06:03 +0000
%X A search for pair production of bottom squarks in events with hadronically decaying t-leptons, b-tagged jets, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. The analyzed dataset is based on proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector from 2015 to 2018, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1). The observed data are compatible with the expected Standard Model background. Results are interpreted in a simplified model where each bottom squark is assumed to decay into the second-lightest neutralino (chi) over tilde (0)(2) and a bottom quark, with (chi) over tilde (0)(2) decaying into a Higgs boson and the lightest neutralino (chi) over tilde1(0). The search focuses on final states where at least one Higgs boson decays into a pair of hadronically decaying t-leptons. This allows the acceptance and thus the sensitivity to be significantly improved relative to the previous results at low masses of the (chi) over tilde (0)(2), where bottom-squark masses up to 850 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, assuming a mass difference of 130 GeV between (chi) over tilde (0)(2) and (chi) over tilde (0)(1). Model-independent upper limits are also set on the cross section of processes beyond the Standard Model.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032014
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08189
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032014
%P 032014-31pp