% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Aad:613059, author = {Aad, Georges and others}, collaboration = {{ATLAS Collaboration}}, title = {{A} search for top-squark pair production, in final states containing a top quark, a charm quark and missing transverse momentum, using the 139 fb$^{−1}$ of pp collision data collected by the {ATLAS} detector}, reportid = {PUBDB-2024-05528, arXiv:2402.12137. CERN-EP-2023-262}, year = {2024}, note = {48 pages in total, author list starting page 31, 10 figures, 5 tables, submitted to Journal of High Energy Physics. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2019-23/}, abstract = {This paper presents a search for top-squark pair production in final states with a top quark, a charm quark and missing transverse momentum. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector during LHC Run 2 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{−1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV. The analysis is motivated by an extended Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model featuring a non-minimal flavour violation in the second- and third-generation squark sector. The top squark in this model has two possible decay modes, either $ {\tilde{t}}_1\to c{\overset{\sim }{\chi}}_1^0 $ or $ {\tilde{t}}_1\to t{\overset{\sim }{\chi}}_1^0 $, where the $ {\overset{\sim }{\chi}}_1^0 $ is undetected. The analysis is optimised assuming that both of the decay modes are equally probable, leading to the most likely final state of $ tc+{E}_T^{\textrm{miss}} $. Good agreement is found between the Standard Model expectation and the data in the search regions. Exclusion limits at 95\% CL are obtained in the $ m\left({\tilde{t}}_1\right) $ vs. $ m\left({\overset{\sim }{\chi}}_1^0\right) $ plane and, in addition, limits on the branching ratio of the $ {\tilde{t}}_1\to t{\overset{\sim }{\chi}}_1^0 $ decay as a function of m($ {\tilde{t}}_1 $) are also produced. Top-squark masses of up to 800 GeV are excluded for scenarios with light neutralinos, and top-squark masses up to 600 GeV are excluded in scenarios where the neutralino and the top squark are almost mass degenerate.[graphic not available: see fulltext]}, keywords = {p p: colliding beams (INSPIRE) / transverse momentum: missing-energy (INSPIRE) / p p: scattering (INSPIRE) / flavor: violation (INSPIRE) / family: 3 (INSPIRE) / squark: pair production (INSPIRE) / stop: pair production (INSPIRE) / neutralino: mass: lower limit (INSPIRE) / stop: decay modes (INSPIRE) / supersymmetry: parameter space (INSPIRE) / ATLAS (INSPIRE) / charm: particle identification (INSPIRE) / stop: branching ratio: upper limit (INSPIRE) / mass dependence (INSPIRE) / minimal supersymmetric standard model (INSPIRE) / CERN LHC Coll (INSPIRE) / nonminimal (INSPIRE) / stop: mass: lower limit (INSPIRE) / experimental results (INSPIRE) / 13000 GeV-cms (INSPIRE) / Beyond Standard Model (autogen) / Hadron-Hadron Scattering (autogen) / Supersymmetry (autogen)}, cin = {ATLAS}, ddc = {530}, cid = {I:(DE-H253)ATLAS-20120731}, pnm = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-611}, experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)LHC-Exp-ATLAS-20150101}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25}, eprint = {2402.12137}, howpublished = {arXiv:2402.12137}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2402.12137;\%\%$}, doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2024-05528}, url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/613059}, }