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 \(\sqrt{s}=13\) TeV with the ATLAS detector
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- 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 \(\sqrt{s}=13\) TeV 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 significantA 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 \(\sqrt{s}=13\) TeV 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% confidence 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.…
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172472 |
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| Document Type: | Journal article |
| Faculties: | Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie |
| Language: | English |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Volume: | 2017 |
| Issue: | 141 |
| Source: | Journal of High Energy Physics (2017) 141. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2017)141 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2017)141 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 539 Moderne Physik |
| Tag: | Exotics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); High energy physics |
| Release Date: | 2021/03/17 |
| Creating Corporation: | The ATLAS Collaboration |
| Licence (German): |  CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |