A search for pair-produced resonances in four-jet final states at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

A search for massive coloured resonances which are pair-produced and decay into two jets is presented. The analysis uses 36.7 fb

- 1

of

s

= 13 TeV pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. No significant deviation from the background prediction is observed. Results are interpreted in a SUSY simplified model where the lightest supersymmetric particle is the top squark,

t ~

, which decays promptly into two quarks through R-parity-violating couplings. Top squarks with masses in the range

100

GeV <

m

t ~

< 410

GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level. If the decay is into a b-quark and a light quark, a dedicated selection requiring two b-tags is used to exclude masses in the ranges

100

GeV <

m

t ~

< 470

GeV and

480

GeV <

m

t ~

< 610

GeV . Additional limits are set on the pair-production of massive colour-octet resonances.