Search for squarks and gluinos in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV in events with $\tau$-leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum using the ATLAS detector

Abstract

A search for R-parity-conserving supersymmetry in events with large missing transverse momentum, jets and at least one hadronically decaying $\tau$-lepton is presented. Both gluino and squark pair production are considered, with the cascade decay of each gluino or squark producing either a $\tau$-slepton or a $\tau$-sneutrino. Three channels are examined, requiring either exactly one hadronically decaying $\tau$-lepton and no other leptons, exactly one hadronically decaying $\tau$-lepton and at least one other lepton, or two or more hadronically decaying $\tau$-leptons. Analyses in the three channels are optimised independently and combined statistically. Two separate analysis strategies, either a cut-and-count or machine-learning approach, are used. The search uses 140 ${\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ and 51.8 ${\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider during 2015-2018 at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and 2022-2023 at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV, respectively. Gluino masses below $2.25$ TeV and squark masses up to $1.7$ TeV are excluded.

62 pages in total, author list starting page 45, 14 figures, 10 tables, published by EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HMBS-2024-05

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