Search for new high-mass phenomena in the dilepton final state using 36 fb −1 of proton-proton collision data at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
M. Aaboud (Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM, Oujda, Morocco); G. Aad (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France); B. Abbott (Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States of America); O. Abdinov (Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan); B. Abeloos (LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France); et al - Show all 2881 authors
A search is conducted for new resonant and non-resonant high-mass phenomena in dielectron and dimuon final states. The search uses 36.1 fb −1 of proton-proton collision data, collected at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. No significant deviation from the Standard Model prediction is observed. Upper limits at 95% credibility level are set on the cross-section times branching ratio for resonances decaying into dileptons, which are converted to lower limits on the resonance mass, up to 4.1 TeV for the E 6 -motivated Z χ ′ . Lower limits on the qqℓℓ contact interaction scale are set between 2.4 TeV and 40 TeV, depending on the model.