Search for phenomena beyond the Standard Model in events with large bb-jet multiplicity using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Collaboration
Oct 2, 2020
29 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 81 (2021) 1, 11,
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 81 (2021) 3, 249 (erratum)
  • Published: Jan 11, 2021
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2020-147
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Springer)
A search is presented for new phenomena in events characterised by high jet multiplicity, no leptons (electrons or muons), and four or more jets originating from the fragmentation of b-quarks (b-jets). The search uses 139 fb1139~\hbox {fb}^{-1} of s\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider during Run 2. The dominant Standard Model background originates from multijet production and is estimated using a data-driven technique based on an extrapolation from events with low b-jet multiplicity to the high b-jet multiplicities used in the search. No significant excess over the Standard Model expectation is observed and 95% confidence-level limits that constrain simplified models of R-parity-violating supersymmetry are determined. The exclusion limits reach 950 GeV in top-squark mass in the models considered.
Note:
  • p p: colliding beams
  • stop: direct production
  • jet: multiplicity: high
  • jet: bottom
  • jet: multiple production
  • bottom: multiple production
  • p p: scattering
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • ATLAS
  • fragmentation