Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV
A search is presented for heavy vectorlike quarks (VLQs) that couple only to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV at the LHC. The data were collected by the CMS experiment during 2012 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1]. Both single and pair prod...
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| author | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw |
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| description | A search is presented for heavy vectorlike quarks (VLQs) that couple only to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV at the LHC. The data were collected by the CMS experiment during 2012 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1]. Both single and pair production of VLQs are considered. The single-production search is performed for down-type VLQs (electric charge of magnitude 1/3), while the pair-production search is sensitive to up-type (charge of magnitude 2/3) and down-type VLQs. Final states with at least one muon or one electron are considered. No significant excess over standard model expectations is observed, and lower limits on the mass of VLQs are derived. The lower limits range from 400 to 1800 GeV, depending on the single-production cross section and the VLQ branching fractions B to W, Z, and Higgs bosons. When considering pair production alone, VLQs with masses below 845 GeV are excluded for B(W)=1.0, and below 685 GeV for B(W)=0.5, B(Z)=B(H)=0.25. The results are more stringent than those previously obtained for single and pair production of VLQs coupled to light quarks. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1147592022-09-28T13:23:34Z Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw A search is presented for heavy vectorlike quarks (VLQs) that couple only to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV at the LHC. The data were collected by the CMS experiment during 2012 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1]. Both single and pair production of VLQs are considered. The single-production search is performed for down-type VLQs (electric charge of magnitude 1/3), while the pair-production search is sensitive to up-type (charge of magnitude 2/3) and down-type VLQs. Final states with at least one muon or one electron are considered. No significant excess over standard model expectations is observed, and lower limits on the mass of VLQs are derived. The lower limits range from 400 to 1800 GeV, depending on the single-production cross section and the VLQ branching fractions B to W, Z, and Higgs bosons. When considering pair production alone, VLQs with masses below 845 GeV are excluded for B(W)=1.0, and below 685 GeV for B(W)=0.5, B(Z)=B(H)=0.25. The results are more stringent than those previously obtained for single and pair production of VLQs coupled to light quarks. 2018-04-17T17:42:04Z 2018-04-17T17:42:04Z 2018-04 2017-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2470-0010 2470-0029 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114759 Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV.” Physical Review D 97, 7 (April 2018): 072008 © 2018 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2622-8295 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7904 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-1747 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1136-6900 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-5622 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072008 Physical Review D Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title | Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_full | Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_short | Search for vectorlike light-flavor quark partners in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_sort | search for vectorlike light flavor quark partners in proton proton collisions at √s 8 tev |
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