Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson at root s=13 TeV in the fully hadronic final state
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Journal Article
Abstract
A search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson in the fully hadronic final state is presented. The analysis is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is focused on heavy resonances, where the decay products of each top quark or W boson are expected to be reconstructed as a single, large-radius jet with a distinct substructure. The production of an excited bottom quark, b*, is used as a benchmark when setting limits on the cross section for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson. The hypotheses of b* quarks with left-handed, right-handed, and vector-like chiralities are excluded at 95% confidence level for masses below 2.6, 2.8, and 3.1 TeV, respectively. These are the most stringent limits on the b* quark mass to date, extending the previous best limits by almost a factor of two.
Date Issued
2021-12-16
Date Acceptance
2021-11-27
Citation
The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, 2021 (12), pp.1-46
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Start Page
1
End Page
46
Journal / Book Title
The Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2021
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Author(s). Open Access . This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Beyond Standard Model
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Heavy quark production
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 106
Date Publish Online
2021-12-16