Search for heavy resonances decaying into a pair of $Z$ bosons in the ${\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}{\ell }^{\prime +}{\ell }^{\prime -}$ and ${\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}\nu \bar{\nu }$ final states using 139 fb${}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

A search for heavy resonances decaying into a pair of $Z$ bosons leading to ${\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}{\ell }^{\prime +}{\ell }^{\prime -}$ and ${\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}\nu \bar{\nu }$ final states, where $\ell$ stands for either an electron or a muon, is presented. The search uses proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected from 2015 to 2018 that corresponds to the full integrated luminosity of 139 fb${}^{-1}$ recorded by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. Different mass ranges spanning 200 GeV to 2000 GeV for the hypothetical resonances are considered, depending on the final state and model. In the absence of a significant observed excess, the results are interpreted as upper limits on the production cross section of a spin-0 or spin-2 resonance. The upper limits for the spin-0 resonance are translated to exclusion contours in the context of Type-I and Type-II two-Higgs-doublet models, and the limits for the spin-2 resonance are used to constrain the Randall--Sundrum model with an extra dimension giving rise to spin-2 graviton excitations.

58 pages in total, author list starting page 42, 10 figures, 6 tables, published in EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2018-09

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