Search for excited τ-leptons and leptoquarks in the final state with τ-leptons and jets in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abeling, K.
Abicht, N. J.
Abidi, S. H.
Aboulhorma, A.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.
Abulaiti, Y.
Abusleme Hoffman, A. C.

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2023-06-29

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Abstract A search is reported for excited τ-leptons and leptoquarks in events with two hadronically decaying τ-leptons and two or more jets. The search uses proton-proton (pp) collision data at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment during the Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider in 2015–2018. The total integrated luminosity is 139 fb−1. The excited τ-lepton is assumed to be produced and to decay via a four-fermion contact interaction into an ordinary τ-lepton and a quark-antiquark pair. The leptoquarks are assumed to be produced in pairs via the strong interaction, and each leptoquark is assumed to couple to a charm or lighter quark and a τ-lepton. No excess over the background prediction is observed. Excited τ-leptons with masses below 2.8 TeV are excluded at 95% CL in scenarios with the contact interaction scale Λ set to 10 TeV. At the extreme limit of model validity where Λ is set equal to the excited τ-lepton mass, excited τ-leptons with masses below 4.6 TeV are excluded. Leptoquarks with masses below 1.3 TeV are excluded at 95% CL if their branching ratio to a charm quark and a τ-lepton equals 1. The analysis does not exploit flavour-tagging in the signal region.

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Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023 Jun 29;2023(6):199

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