Combination of searches for heavy resonances decaying into bosonic and leptonic final states using of proton-proton collision data at with the ATLAS detector
M. Aaboud (Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM, Oujda, Morocco); G. Aad (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France); B. Abbott (Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA); O. Abdinov (Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan); B. Abeloos (LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France); et al - Show all 2928 authors
Searches for new heavy resonances decaying into different pairings of , , or Higgs bosons, as well as directly into leptons, are presented using a data sample corresponding to of collisions at collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Analyses selecting bosonic decay modes in the , , , , , , , , , , , and final states are combined, searching for a narrow-width resonance. Likewise, analyses selecting the leptonic and final states are also combined. These two sets of analyses are then further combined. No significant deviation from the Standard Model predictions is observed. Three benchmark models are tested: a model predicting the existence of a new heavy scalar singlet, a simplified model predicting a heavy vector-boson triplet, and a bulk Randall-Sundrum model with a heavy spin-2 Kaluza-Klein excitation of the graviton. Cross section limits are set at the 95% confidence level using an asymptotic approximation and are compared with predictions for the benchmark models. These limits are also expressed in terms of constraints on couplings of the heavy vector-boson triplet to quarks, leptons, and the Higgs boson. The data exclude a heavy vector-boson triplet with mass below 5.5 TeV in a weakly coupled scenario and 4.5 TeV in a strongly coupled scenario, as well as a Kaluza-Klein graviton with mass below 2.3 TeV.