The search for high mass dilepton resonances in Run II data from ATLAS

Having enabled discoveries of Standard Model resonances in previous decades, the dilepton invariant mass spectrum remains a vital experimental probe of today’s high energy frontier. Multiple benchmark scenarios beyond the Standard Model anticipate high-mass neutral mediators with clean signatures in dilepton final states at the Large Hadron Collider. In my talk I report findings from the latest search for such signatures in 13 TeV collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector.