Search for chargino-neutralino production using an emulated recursive jigsaw reconstruction technique in three-lepton final states with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

A search for supersymmetry through the pair production of electroweakinos is presented in a three-lepton final state. The analyzed proton-proton collision data taken at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV were collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $139$ fb$^{-1}$. The search emulates the recursive jigsaw reconstruction technique using conventional analysis variables, searching for low-mass chargino-neutralino pair production that decays to on-shell $W$ and $Z$ bosons. The technique is validated and the excess seen previously in 2015 and 2016 data is studied while incorporating new data.