학술논문
Search for pair production of third-generation leptoquarks decaying into a bottom quark and a τ-lepton with the ATLAS detector.
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Article
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*PROTON-proton interactions
*LEPTOQUARKS
*PAIR production
*QUARK decay
*YANG-Mills theory
*BRANCHING ratios
*STANDARD deviations
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1434-6044
Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]