TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Amos, K. R. AU - Aparisi Pozo, J. A. AU - Bailey, A. J. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Cantero, J. AU - Cardillo, F. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Didenko AU - Escobar, C. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fullana Torregrosa, E. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Garcia Navarro, J. E. AU - Gomez Delegido, A. J. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R. AU - Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lozano Bahilo, J. J. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Martinez Agullo, P. AU - Miralles Lopez, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Monsonis Romero, L. AU - Moreno Llacer, M. AU - Munoz Perez, D. AU - Navarro-Gonzalez, J. AU - Poveda, J. AU - Prades Ibañez, A. AU - Rubio Jimenez, A. AU - Ruiz-Martinez, A. AU - Sabatini, P. AU - Salt, J. AU - Sanchez Sebastian, V. AU - Sayago Galvan, I. AU - Senthilkumar, V. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Torro Pastor, E. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Varriale, L. AU - Villaplana Perez, M. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2023 DA - 2023// TI - Search for a new scalar resonance in flavour-changing neutral-current top-quark decays t → qX (q = u, c), with X → b(b)over-bar, in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector T2 - J. High Energy Phys. JO - Journal of High Energy Physics SP - 199 EP - 51pp VL - 07 IS - 7 PB - Springer KW - Hadron-Hadron Scattering AB - A search for flavour-changing neutral-current decays of a top quark into an up-type quark (either up or charm) and a light scalar particle X decaying into a bottom anti-bottom quark pair is presented. The search focuses on top-quark pair production where one top quark decays to qX, with X -> b (b) over bar, and the other top quark decays according to the Standard Model, with the W boson decaying leptonically. The final state is thus characterised by an isolated electron or muon and at least four jets. Events are categorised according to the multiplicity of jets and jets tagged as originating from b-quarks, and a neural network is used to discriminate between signal and background processes. The data analysed correspond to 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The 95% confidence-level upper limits between 0.019% and 0.062% are derived for the branching fraction B(t -> uX) and between 0.018% and 0.078% for the branching fraction B(t -> cX), for masses of the scalar particle X between 20 and 160 GeV. SN - 1029-8479 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03902 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)199 DO - 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)199 LA - English N1 - WOS:001061847500001 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023 ER -