Search for a W′ boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
Results are presented from a search for a W′ boson using a dataset corresponding to 5.0 fb[superscript −1] of integrated luminosity collected during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. The W′ boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the couplin...
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Elsevier
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91913 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6332-5839 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 |
Summary: | Results are presented from a search for a W′ boson using a dataset corresponding to 5.0 fb[superscript −1] of integrated luminosity collected during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. The W′ boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the couplings to fermions are considered, involving both left-handed and right-handed chiral projections of the fermions, as well as an arbitrary mixture of the two. The search is performed in the decay channel W′→tb leading to a final state signature with a single electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and jets, at least one of which is identified as a b-jet. A W′ boson that couples to the right-handed (left-handed) chiral projections of the fermions with the same coupling constants as the W is excluded for masses below 1.85 (1.51) TeV at the 95% confidence level. For the first time using LHC data, constraints on the W′ gauge couplings for a set of left- and right-handed coupling combinations have been placed. These results represent a significant improvement over previously published limits. |
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