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Search for new phenomena in events containing a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum in $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
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Two searches for new phenomena in final states containing a same-flavour opposite-sign lepton (electron or muon) pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum are presented. These searches make use of proton–proton collision data, collected during 2015 and 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=13$ $\text {TeV}$ by the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider, which correspond to an integrated luminosity of $14.7~\mathrm {fb}^{-1}$ . Both searches target the pair production of supersymmetric particles, squarks or gluinos, which decay to final states containing a same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair via one of two mechanisms: a leptonically decaying Z boson in the final state, leading to a peak in the dilepton invariant-mass distribution around the Z boson mass, and decays of neutralinos (e.g. $\tilde{\chi }_2^0 \rightarrow \ell ^+\ell ^- \tilde{\chi }_1^0$ ), yielding a kinematic endpoint in the dilepton invariant-mass spectrum. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model expectation. Results are interpreted in simplified models of gluino-pair (squark-pair) production, and provide sensitivity to gluinos (squarks) with masses as large as 1.70 $\text {TeV}$ (980 $\text {GeV}$ ).