PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea Aparisi Pozo, JA Bailey, AJ Cabrera Urban, S Castillo, FL Castillo Gimenez, V Costa, MJ Escobar, C Estrada Pastor, O Ferrer, A Fiorini, L Fullana Torregrosa, E Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Gonzalvo Rodriguez, GR Guerrero Rojas, JGR Higon-Rodriguez, E Lacasta, C Lozano Bahilo, JJ Madaffari, D Mamuzic, J Marti-Garcia, S Martinez Agullo, P Mitsou, VA Moreno Llacer, M Poveda, J Prades IbaƱez, A Rodriguez Bosca, S Ruiz-Martinez, A Salt, J Santra, A Sayago Galvan, I Soldevila, U Torro Pastor, E Sanchez, J Valero, A Valls Ferrer, JA Vos, M TI Search for pairs of scalar leptoquarks decaying into quarks and electrons or muons in root s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector SO Journal of High Energy Physics JI J. High Energy Phys. PY 2020 BP 112 EP 45pp VL 10 IS 10 DI 10.1007/JHEP10(2020)112 LA English DE Beyond Standard Model; Exotics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Particle and resonance production AB A search for new-physics resonances decaying into a lepton and a jet performed by the ATLAS experiment is presented. Scalar leptoquarks pair-produced inppcollisions at root s = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider are considered using an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1), corresponding to the full Run 2 dataset. They are searched for in events with two electrons or two muons and two or more jets, including jets identified as arising from the fragmentation ofc- orb-quarks. The observed yield in each channel is consistent with the Standard Model background expectation. Leptoquarks with masses below 1.8 TeV and 1.7 TeV are excluded in the electron and muon channels, respectively, assuming a branching ratio into a charged lepton and a quark of 100%, with minimal dependence on the quark flavour. Upper limits on the aforementioned branching ratio are also given as a function of the leptoquark mass. ER