This Letter presents a search for new light resonances decaying to pairs of quarks and produced in association with a high-p T photon or jet. The dataset consists of proton–proton collisions with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb −1 at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Resonance candidates are identified as massive large-radius jets with substructure consistent with a particle decaying into a quark pair. The mass spectrum of the candidates is examined for local excesses above background. No evidence of a new resonance is observed in the data, which are used to exclude the production of a lepto-phobic axial-vector Z ′ boson.

Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S.H., et al. (2019). Search for light resonances decaying to boosted quark pairs and produced in association with a photon or a jet in proton–proton collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector. PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B, 788, 316-335 [10.1016/j.physletb.2018.09.062].

Search for light resonances decaying to boosted quark pairs and produced in association with a photon or a jet in proton–proton collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

Ceradini, F.;Di Micco, B.;Di Nardo, R.;Orestano, D.;