Aad, G.Abbott, B.Abbott, D. C.Abud, A. AbedAbeling, K.Abhayasinghe, D. K.Çetin, Serkant Ali2024-07-182024-07-1820212470-00102470-0029https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032014https://hdl.handle.net/11411/7685A search for pair production of bottom squarks in events with hadronically decaying t-leptons, b-tagged jets, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. The analyzed dataset is based on proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector from 2015 to 2018, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1). The observed data are compatible with the expected Standard Model background. Results are interpreted in a simplified model where each bottom squark is assumed to decay into the second-lightest neutralino (chi) over tilde (0)(2) and a bottom quark, with (chi) over tilde (0)(2) decaying into a Higgs boson and the lightest neutralino (chi) over tilde1(0). The search focuses on final states where at least one Higgs boson decays into a pair of hadronically decaying t-leptons. This allows the acceptance and thus the sensitivity to be significantly improved relative to the previous results at low masses of the (chi) over tilde (0)(2), where bottom-squark masses up to 850 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, assuming a mass difference of 130 GeV between (chi) over tilde (0)(2) and (chi) over tilde (0)(1). Model-independent upper limits are also set on the cross section of processes beyond the Standard Model.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSupersymmetryExtensionWeakSearch for bottom-squark pair production in pp collision events at ?s=13 TeV with hadronically decaying ?-leptons, b-jets, and missing transverse momentum using the ATLAS detectorArticle2-s2.0-8511463196110.1103/PhysRevD.104.0320143Q1104Q1WOS:000692081200002