PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea Amos, KR Aparisi Pozo, JA Bailey, AJ Bouchhar, N Cabrera Urban, S Cantero, J Cardillo, F Castillo Gimenez, V Chitishvili, M Costa, MJ Didenko Escobar, C Fiorini, L Fullana Torregrosa, E Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gomez Delegido, AJ Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Gonzalvo Rodriguez, GR Guerrero Rojas, JGR Higon-Rodriguez, E Lacasta, C Lozano Bahilo, JJ Marti-Garcia, S Martinez Agullo, P Miralles Lopez, M Mitsou, VA Monsonis Romero, L Moreno Llacer, M Munoz Perez, D Navarro-Gonzalez, J Poveda, J Prades IbaƱez, A Rubio Jimenez, A Ruiz-Martinez, A Sabatini, P Salt, J Sanchez Sebastian, V Sayago Galvan, I Senthilkumar, V Soldevila, U Sanchez, J Torro Pastor, E Valero, A Valls Ferrer, JA Varriale, L Villaplana Perez, M Vos, M TI Search for third-generation vector-like leptons in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector SO Journal of High Energy Physics JI J. High Energy Phys. PY 2023 BP 118 EP 49pp VL 07 IS 7 DI 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)118 LA English DE Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron Scattering; Tau Physics AB A search for vector-like leptons in multilepton (two, three, or four-or-more electrons plus muons) final states with zero or more hadronic tau-lepton decays is presented. The search is performed using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. To maximize the separation of signal and background, a machine-learning classifier is used. No excess of events is observed beyond the Standard Model expectation. Using a doublet vector-like lepton model, vector-like leptons coupling to third-generation Standard Model leptons are excluded in the mass range from 130 GeV to 900 GeV at the 95% confidence level, while the highest excluded mass is expected to be 970 GeV. ER