Search for pair production of heavy vector-like quarks decaying to high-p(T) W bosons and b quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
| dc.contributor.author | Aaboud, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Albert, Justin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chiu, Y. H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Elliot, Alison A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fincke-Keeler, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hamano, Kenji | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hill, Ewan Chin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Keeler, Richard | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kowalewski, Robert | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kuwertz, E. S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kwan, Tony | |
| dc.contributor.author | LeBlanc, Matthew Edgar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lefebvre, Michel | |
| dc.contributor.author | McPherson, Robert A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Seuster, Rolf | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sobie, Randall J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Trovatelli, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Venturi, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | et al. | |
| dc.contributor.author | ATLAS Collaboration | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-17T23:31:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-10-17T23:31:27Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2017 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A search is presented for the pair production of heavy vector-like T quarks, primarily targeting the T quark decays to a W boson and a b-quark. The search is based on 36: 1 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 13TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Data are analysed in the lepton-plus-jets final state, including at least one b-tagged jet and a large-radius jet identified as originating from the hadronic decay of a high-momentum W boson. No significant deviation from the Standard Model expectation is observed in the reconstructed T mass distribution. The observed 95% confidence level lower limit on the T mass are 1350 GeV assuming 100% branching ratio to Wb. In the SU(2) singlet scenario, the lower mass limit is 1170 GeV. This search is also sensitive to a heavy vector-like B quark decaying to Wt and other final states. The results are thus reinterpreted to provide a 95% con fidence level lower limit on the B quark mass at 1250 GeV assuming 100% branching ratio to Wt; in the SU(2) singlet scenario, the limit is 1080 GeV. Mass limits on both T and B production are also set as a function of the decay branching ratios. The 100% branching ratio limits are found to be applicable to heavy vector-like Y and X production that decay to Wb and Wt, respectively. | en_US |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; SRNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Region Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (U.K.) and BNL (U.S.A.), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in ref. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | The ATLAS collaboration; Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdinov, O.; Abeloos, B.; Abidi, S. H.; … & Zwalinski, L. (2017). Search for pair production of heavy vector-like quarks decaying to high-p(T) W bosons and b quarks in the lepton-plusjets final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(10), article 141. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2017)141 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2017)141 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11255 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Journal of High Energy Physics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Exotics | |
| dc.subject | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) | |
| dc.subject.department | Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| dc.title | Search for pair production of heavy vector-like quarks decaying to high-p(T) W bosons and b quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |