Search for pair production of scalar leptoquarks decaying into first- or second-generation leptons and top quarks in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G Aad; B Abbott; DC Abbott; AA Abud; K Abeling; DK Abhayasinghe; SH Abidi; OS AbouZeid; NL Abraham; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; B Achkar; L Adam; CA Bourdarios; L Adamczyk; L Adamek; J Adelman; 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; M Akbiyik; TPA Åkesson; E Akilli; AV Akimov; KA Khoury; GL Alberghi; J Albert; MJA 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; EA Camelia; MA Estevez; MG Alviggi; YA Coutinho; A Ambler; L Ambroz; C Amelung; D Amidei; SPAD 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; JAA Pozo; MA Aparo; LA Bella; N Aranzabal; VA Ferraz; RA Pereira; C Arcangeletti

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Search for pair production of scalar leptoquarks decaying into first- or second-generation leptons and top quarks in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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

European Physical Journal C | SPRINGER | Published : 2021

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09009-8

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Abstract

A search for pair production of scalar leptoquarks, each decaying into either an electron or a muon and a top quark, is presented. This is the first leptoquark search using ATLAS data to investigate top-philic cross-generational couplings that could provide explanations for recently observed anomalies in B meson decays. This analysis targets high leptoquark masses which cause the decay products of each resultant top quark to be contained within a single high-pT large-radius jet. The full Run 2 dataset is exploited, consisting of 139fb-1 of data collected from proton–proton collisions at s=13TeV from 2015 to 2018 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In the absence of any..

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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 CEADRF/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; JINR; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS andMIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC andWallenberg 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, CRC and IVADO, Canada; Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, China; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, 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; Goran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.