Search for heavy neutral resonances in vector boson fusion in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider

This note presents a search for new heavy neutral resonances (R) produced through vector boson fusion process $qq \rightarrow Rqq \rightarrow \ell^+ \nu \ell^- \bar \nu qq$ ($\ell=e, \mu$) using 3.2 fb$^{−1}$ of data at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No excess above the Standard Model background expectation is observed. Limits are set on the production of five types of neutral resonances of different spin and isospin quantum numbers (scalar isoscalar, scalar isotensor, vector isovector, tensor isoscalar and tensor isotensor) with a K-matrix unitarization of the vector boson scattering process.