| Autor: |
CMS, Bakhshiansohi, Hamed, Bondu, Olivier, Brochet, Sébastien, Bruno, Giacomo Luca, Caudron, Adrien, de Visscher, Simon, Delaere, Christophe, Delcourt, Martin, François, Brieuc, Giammanco, Andrea, Jafari, Abideh, Komm, Matthias, Krintiras, Georgios, Lemaitre, Vincent, Magitteri, Alessio, Alexandre Mertens, Musich, Marco, Piotrzkowski, Krzysztof, Quertenmont, Loic, Vidal Maroño, Miguel, Wertz, Sébastien |
| Přispěvatelé: |
UCL - SST/IRMP - Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 1711, p. 085 |
| Popis: |
A search for pair production of massive vector-like T and B quarks in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV is presented. The data set was collected in 2015 by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of up to 2.6 inverse femtobarns. The T and B quarks are assumed to decay through three possible channels into a heavy boson (either a W, Z or Higgs boson) and a third generation quark. This search is performed in final states with one charged lepton and several jets, exploiting techniques to identify W or Higgs bosons decaying hadronically with large transverse momenta. No excess over the predicted standard model background is observed. Upper limits at 95% confidence level on the T quark pair production cross section are set that exclude T quark masses below 860 GeV in the singlet, and below 830 GeV in the doublet branching fraction scenario. For other branching fraction combinations with B(tH) + B(bW) >= 0.4, lower limits on the T quark range from 790 to 940 GeV. Limits are also set on pair production of singlet vector-like B quarks, which can be excluded up to a mass of 730 GeV. These limits are among the most stringent to date for vector-like T quarks. The techniques showcased here for understanding highly-boosted final states are important as the sensitivity to new particles is extended to higher masses |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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