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

Aaboud, M.Albert, JustinChiu, Y. H.Elliot, Alison A.Fincke-Keeler, J.Hamano, KenjiHill, Ewan ChinKeeler, RichardKowalewski, RobertKuwertz, E. S.Kwan, TonyLeBlanc, Matthew EdgarLefebvre, MichelMcPherson, Robert A.Seuster, RolfSobie, Randall J.Trovatelli, M.Venturi, M.et al.ATLAS Collaboration2019-10-172019-10-1720172017The 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)141https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2017)141http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11255A 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.enExoticsHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)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 detectorArticleDepartment of Physics and Astronomy