%0 Journal Article
%T A search for an unexpected asymmetry in the production of e(+)mu(-) and e(-)mu(+) pairs in proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at root s=13 TeV
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Amos, K. R.
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Cardillo, F.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Didenko
%A Escobar, C.
%A Estrada Pastor, O.
%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 Miralles Lopez, M.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Monsonis Romero, L.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
%A Poveda, J.
%A Prades Ibañez, A.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Sabatini, P.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Sebastian, V.
%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 Physics Letters B
%D 2022
%V 830
%I Elsevier
%@ 0370-2693
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2022
%O WOS:000833528800001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5324), last updated on Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:25:31 +0000
%X This search, a type not previously performed at ATLAS, uses a comparison of the production cross sections for e(+)mu(-) and e(-)mu(+) pairs to constrain physics processes beyond the Standard Model. It uses 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data recorded at root s = 13 TeV at the LHC. Targeting sources of new physics which prefer final states containing e(+)mu(-) and e(-)mu(+), the search contains two broad signal regions which are used to provide model-independent constraints on the ratio of cross sections at the 2% level. The search also has two special selections targeting supersymmetric models and leptoquark signatures. Observations using one of these selections are able to exclude, at 95% confidence level, singly produced smuons with masses up to 640 GeV in a model in which the only other light sparticle is a neutralino when the R-parity-violating coupling lambda(23)(1)' is close to unity. Observations using the other selection exclude scalar leptoquarks with masses below 1880 GeV when g(1R)(eu) = g(1R)(mu c) = 1, at 95% confidence level. The limit on the coupling reduces to g(1R)(eu) = g(1R)(mu c) = 0.46 for a mass of 1420 GeV.
%R 10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137106
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08090
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137106
%P 137106-22pp