Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
A search is presented for single production of a vector-like quark (T) decaying to a Z boson and a top quark, with the Z boson decaying leptonically and the top quark decaying hadronically. The search uses data collected by the CMS experiment in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of...
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| author | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran 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 Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth 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 |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran 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 Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth 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 single production of a vector-like quark (T) decaying to a Z boson and a top quark, with the Z boson decaying leptonically and the top quark decaying hadronically. The search uses data collected by the CMS experiment in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb⁻¹. The presence of forward jets is a particular characteristic of single production of vector-like quarks that is used in the analysis. For the first time, different T quark width hypotheses are studied, from negligibly small to 30% of the new particle mass. At the 95% confidence level, the product of cross section and branching fraction is excluded above values in the range 0.26–0.04 pb for T quark masses in the range 0.7–1.7 TeV, assuming a negligible width. A similar sensitivity is observed for widths of up to 30% of the T quark mass. The production of a heavy Z′ boson decaying to Tt, with T→ tZ, is also searched for, and limits on the product of cross section and branching fractions for this process are set between 0.13 and 0.06 pb for Z′ boson masses in the range from 1.5 to 2.5 TeV. Keywords: CMS; Physics; Vector-like quarks |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1197942022-09-30T17:34:45Z Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran 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 Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth 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 Nuclear Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran 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 Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth 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 single production of a vector-like quark (T) decaying to a Z boson and a top quark, with the Z boson decaying leptonically and the top quark decaying hadronically. The search uses data collected by the CMS experiment in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb⁻¹. The presence of forward jets is a particular characteristic of single production of vector-like quarks that is used in the analysis. For the first time, different T quark width hypotheses are studied, from negligibly small to 30% of the new particle mass. At the 95% confidence level, the product of cross section and branching fraction is excluded above values in the range 0.26–0.04 pb for T quark masses in the range 0.7–1.7 TeV, assuming a negligible width. A similar sensitivity is observed for widths of up to 30% of the T quark mass. The production of a heavy Z′ boson decaying to Tt, with T→ tZ, is also searched for, and limits on the product of cross section and branching fractions for this process are set between 0.13 and 0.06 pb for Z′ boson masses in the range from 1.5 to 2.5 TeV. Keywords: CMS; Physics; Vector-like quarks 2018-12-20T15:00:31Z 2018-12-20T15:00:31Z 2018-04 2018-03 2018-10-11T14:04:32Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0370-2693 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119794 Sirunyan, A.M. et al. “Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV.” Physics Letters B 781 (June 2018): 574–600 © 2018 The Author(s) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 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/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 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/0000-0002-7312-5854 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 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2018.04.036 Physics Letters B Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier Elsevier |
| spellingShingle | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran 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 Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth 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 Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title | Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_full | Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_short | Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying to a Z Boson and a Top Quark in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_sort | search for single production of a vector like t quark decaying to a z boson and a top quark in proton proton collisions at √s 13 tev |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119794 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 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/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 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/0000-0002-7312-5854 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 |
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