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@TECHREPORT{Collaboration:599325,
key = {599325},
collaboration = {{ATLAS Collaboration}},
title = {{S}earch for narrow low-mass resonances in the four-muon
final state with the {ATLAS} detector at the {LHC}},
number = {ATLAS-CONF-2023-041},
reportid = {PUBDB-2023-07321, ATLAS-CONF-2023-041},
pages = {21},
year = {2023},
note = {Preliminary results. All figures including auxiliary
figures are available at
https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2023-041.
The authors list may be incomplete!},
abstract = {A search for new low-mass resonances in the four-muon final
state in the four-muon invariant mass range from $10-50$~GeV
is performed using $pp$ collision data recorded with the
ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The data
correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ at
a centre-of-mass energy ($\sqrt{s}$) of 8T eV collected in
2012, and 51.5 fb$^{-1}$ and 58.5 fb$^{-1}$ collected at
$\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV in 2015--2017 and 2018, respectively. An
excess at 18 GeV in the invariant mass spectrum of the
four-muon system of the selected
$\Upsilon(1\mathrm{S})+\mu^+\mu^-\to\mu^+\mu^-\,\mu^+\mu^-$
final state is observed in the 8 TeV data. Although not
blinded, typical selection criteria are used and variations
studied to explore the stability of the excess, resulting in
local significances of the excess of between be
$3.6\,\sigma$ and $6.3\,\sigma$ corresponding to global
significances of $1.9\,\sigma$ to $5.4\,\sigma$. A baseline
choice of selection cuts defined for the analysis at 8~TeV
was defined in the 8~TeV data to be further probed at Run 2.
Subsequent analysis of 13 TeV data finds a smaller excess at
the same four-muon invariant mass with a significance of
$1.9\,\sigma$ in early 13~TeV data runs, while data
collected with more restrictive trigger selections in the
2018 dataset finds no evidence of a signal. LHCb and CMS
have observed no excess at this mass. Signal MC and
di-$\Upsilon(1\mathrm{S})$ production studies in data are
used to quantify performance across the three data-taking
periods, finding reductions in expected sensitivity in the
13 TeV dataset compared to that at 8 TeV. The lack of
observation of a signal in the 13 TeV is assessed to be in
tension with the structure observed at an invariant mass of
18 GeV in the 8 TeV dataset, up to a maximum of $2.7\sigma$.
We subsequently set and report limits on the total
production cross section times branching fraction to a
four-muon final state for a new state at a mass of 18 GeV
for a variety of models.},
keywords = {four-muon (autogen) / resonance (autogen) / Upsilon+mumu
(autogen) / BPHYS (autogen)},
cin = {ATLAS},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)ATLAS-20120731},
pnm = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-611},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)LHC-Exp-ATLAS-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)29},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2023-07321},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/599325},
}