Search for new non-resonant phenomena in high-mass dilepton final states with the ATLAS detector

G Aad; B Abbott; DC Abbott; A Abed Abud; K Abeling; DK Abhayasinghe; SH Abidi; OS AbouZeid; NL Abraham; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; B Achkar; L Adam; C Adam Bourdarios; L Adamczyk; L Adamek; J Adelman; M Adersberger; A Adiguzel; S Adorni; T Adye; AA Affolder; Y Afik; C Agapopoulou; MN Agaras; A Aggarwal; C Agheorghiesei; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; A Ahmad; F Ahmadov; WS Ahmed; X Ai; G Aielli; S Akatsuka; TPA Åkesson; E Akilli; AV Akimov; K Al Khoury; GL Alberghi; J Albert; MJ Alconada Verzini; S Alderweireldt; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; C Alexa; T Alexopoulos; A Alfonsi; F Alfonsi; M Alhroob; B Ali; S Ali; M Aliev; G Alimonti; C Allaire; BMM Allbrooke; BW Allen; PP Allport; A Aloisio; F Alonso; C Alpigiani; E Alunno Camelia; M Alvarez Estevez; MG Alviggi; Y Amaral Coutinho; A Ambler; L Ambroz; C Amelung; D Amidei; SP Amor Dos Santos; S Amoroso; CS Amrouche; F An; C Anastopoulos; N Andari; T Andeen; JK Anders; SY Andrean; A Andreazza; V Andrei; CR Anelli; S Angelidakis; A Angerami; AV Anisenkov; A Annovi; C Antel; MT Anthony; E Antipov; M Antonelli; DJA Antrim; F Anulli; M Aoki; JA Aparisi Pozo; MA Aparo; L Aperio Bella; N Aranzabal Barrio; V Araujo Ferraz; R Araujo Pereira; C Arcangeletti

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Search for new non-resonant phenomena in high-mass dilepton final states with the ATLAS detector

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling, DK Abhayasinghe, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, B Achkar, L Adam, C Adam Bourdarios, L Adamczyk, L Adamek, J Adelman, M Adersberger Show all

Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) | SpringerOpen | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2020)005

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Abstract

A search for new physics with non-resonant signals in dielectron and dimuon final states in the mass range above 2 TeV is presented. This is the first search for non-resonant signals in dilepton final states at the LHC to use a background estimate from the data. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1, were recorded by the ATLAS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. The benchmark signal signature is a two-quark and two-lepton contact interaction, which would enhance the dilepton event rate at the TeV mass scale. To model the contribution from background processes a functional form is ..

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Awarded by Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; ANID, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC and Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russia Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, Compute Canada and CRC, Canada; ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions and COST, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex, Investissements d'Avenir Idex and ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and GIF, Israel; La Caixa Banking Foundation, CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and PROMETEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; G~oran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.