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Search for electroweak production of a vector-like T quark using fully hadronic final states
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Sirunyan2020_Article_SearchForElectroweakProduction.pdf (1.1 MB)
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP01%282020%29036
Author(s)
Sirunyan, AM
Tumasyan, A
Adam, W
Ambrogi, F
Bergauer, T
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A search is performed for electroweak production of a vector-like top quark partner T of charge 2/3 in association with a top or bottom quark, using proton-proton collision data at s√ = 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The search targets T quarks over a wide range of masses and fractional widths, decaying to a top quark and either a Higgs boson or a Z boson in fully hadronic final states. The search is performed using two experimentally distinct signatures that depend on whether or not each quark from the decays of the top quark, Higgs boson, or Z boson produces an individual resolved jet. Jet substructure, b tagging, and kinematic variables are used to identify the top quark and boson jets, and also to suppress the standard model backgrounds. The data are found to be consistent with the expected backgrounds. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the cross sections for T quark-mediated production of tHQq, tZQq, and their sum, where Q is the associated top or bottom heavy quark and q is another associated quark. The limits are given for each search signature for various T quark widths up to 30% of the T quark mass, and are between 2 pb and 20 fb for T quark masses in the range 0.6–2.6 TeV. These results are significantly more sensitive than prior searches for electroweak single production of T → tH and represent the first constraints on T → tZ using hadronic decays of the Z boson with this production mode.
Date Issued
2020-01-08
Date Acceptance
2019-11-27
Citation
The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, 36 (1), pp.1-64
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/77371
URL
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP01%282020%29036
DOI
10.1007/JHEP01(2020)036
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Start Page
1
End Page
64
Journal / Book Title
The Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
36
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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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http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000511968000001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
vector-like quarks
PROTON-PROTON COLLISIONS
PAIR PRODUCTION
BOSON
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 36
Date Publish Online
2020-01-08
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