Speaker
Leigh Schaefer
(University of Pennsylvania)
Description
A search is presented for the direct pair production of scalar tops, which decay through an R-parity-violating coupling to a final state with two leptons and two jets, at least one of which is identified as a b-jet. The dataset consists of an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13 TeV, collected over 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No significant excess over the Standard Model expectation is observed and 95% confidence-level limits are set for various branching fractions of the scalar top decay to an electron, muon, or tau with a b-quark.
Primary authors
Brett Jackson
(University of Pennsylvania)
Evelyn Thomson
(University of Pennsylvania)
Giuseppe Lerner
(University of Sussex)
Iacopo Vivarelli
(University of Sussex)
Ian Dyckes
(University of Pennsylvania)
Jeff Dandoy
(University of Pennsylvania)
Kerim Suruliz
(University of Sussex)
Leigh Schaefer
(University of Pennsylvania)