Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
A search is presented for the single production of vector-like quarks in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb⁻¹, were recorded with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis focuses on the vector-like quark decay into a top quark an...
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| author | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie 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 Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie 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 Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong |
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| description | A search is presented for the single production of vector-like quarks in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb⁻¹, were recorded with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis focuses on the vector-like quark decay into a top quark and a W boson, with one muon or electron in the final state. The mass of the vector-like quark candidate is reconstructed from hadronic jets, the lepton, and the missing transverse momentum. Methods for the identification of b quarks and of highly Lorentz boosted hadronically decaying top quarks and W bosons are exploited in this search. No significant deviation from the standard model background expectation is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction as a function of the vector-like quark mass, which range from 0.3 to 0.03pb for vector-like quark masses of 700 to 2000GeV. Mass exclusion limits up to 1660GeV are obtained, depending on the vector-like quark type, coupling, and decay width. These represent the most stringent exclusion limits for the single production of vector-like quarks in this channel. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1201692022-09-28T19:35:12Z Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie 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 Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong 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 Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie 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 Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong A search is presented for the single production of vector-like quarks in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb⁻¹, were recorded with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis focuses on the vector-like quark decay into a top quark and a W boson, with one muon or electron in the final state. The mass of the vector-like quark candidate is reconstructed from hadronic jets, the lepton, and the missing transverse momentum. Methods for the identification of b quarks and of highly Lorentz boosted hadronically decaying top quarks and W bosons are exploited in this search. No significant deviation from the standard model background expectation is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction as a function of the vector-like quark mass, which range from 0.3 to 0.03pb for vector-like quark masses of 700 to 2000GeV. Mass exclusion limits up to 1660GeV are obtained, depending on the vector-like quark type, coupling, and decay width. These represent the most stringent exclusion limits for the single production of vector-like quarks in this channel. 2019-02-04T16:06:40Z 2019-02-04T16:06:40Z 2018-12 2018-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1434-6044 1434-6052 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120169 Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV.” The European Physical Journal C 79, 2 (January 2019): 90 © CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 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/0000-0001-8189-3741 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/0000-0003-2593-7767 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/0000-0003-3106-4894 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5498-8825 en_US https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6556-3 European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag Springer |
| spellingShingle | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie 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 Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title | Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_full | Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_short | Search for Single Production of Vector-Like Quarks Decaying to a Top Quark and a W Boson in proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_sort | search for single production of vector like quarks decaying to a top quark and a w boson in proton proton collisions at √s 13 tev |
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