Search for same-charge top-quark pair production in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.2025, no.2, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 2025 Issue: 2
- Publication Date: 2025
- Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep02(2025)084
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals, Nature Index
- Keywords: Hadron-Hadron Scattering
- Open Archive Collection: Article
- Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) Affiliated: No
Abstract
A search for the production of top-quark pairs with the same electric charge (tt or tt¯) is presented. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data at s = 13 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. Events with two same-charge leptons and at least two b-tagged jets are selected. Neural networks are employed to define two selections sensitive to additional couplings beyond the Standard Model that would enhance the production rate of same-sign top-quark pairs. No significant signal is observed, leading to an upper limit on the total production cross-section of same-sign top-quark pairs of 1.6 fb at 95% confidence level. Corresponding limits on the three Wilson coefficients associated with the Otu1, OQu1, and OQu8 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework are derived.