%0 Journal Article %T Search for pair production of third-generation leptoquarks decaying into a bottom quark and a tau-lepton with the ATLAS detector %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Amos, K. R. %A Aparisi Pozo, J. A. %A Bailey, A. J. %A Bouchhar, N. %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Cantero, J. %A Cardillo, F. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Chitishvili, M. %A Costa, M. J. %A Didenko, M. %A Escobar, C. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fullana Torregrosa, E. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Garcia Navarro, J. E. %A Gomez Delegido, A. J. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R. %A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R. %A Lacasta, C. %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 Munoz Perez, D. %A Navarro-Gonzalez, J. %A Poveda, J. %A Prades Ibañez, A. %A Rubio Jimenez, A. %A Ruiz-Martinez, A. %A Sabatini, P. %A Salt, J. %A Sanchez Sebastian, V. %A Sayago Galvan, I. %A Senthilkumar, V. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Torro Pastor, E. %A Valero, A. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Varriale, L. %A Villaplana Perez, M. %A Vos, M. %J European Physical Journal C %D 2023 %V 83 %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=6097), last updated on Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:13:45 +0000 %X A search for pair-produced scalar or vector leptoquarks decaying into a b-quark and a τ-lepton is presented using the full LHC Run 2 (2015-2018) data sample of 139 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=13 TeV. Events in which at least one τ-lepton decays hadronically are considered, and multivariate discriminants are used to extract the signals. No significant deviations from the Standard Model expectation are observed and 95% confidence-level upper limits on the production cross-section are derived as a function of leptoquark mass and branching ratio B into a τ-lepton and b-quark. For scalar leptoquarks, masses below 1460 GeV are excluded assuming B=100%, while for vector leptoquarks the corresponding limit is 1650 GeV (1910 GeV) in the minimal-coupling (Yang-Mills) scenario. %R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12104-7 %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01294 %U https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12104-7 %P 1075-35pp