Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a top quark and a W boson in proton-proton collisions at TeV

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Sirunyan, A. M. [1 ]
Tumasyan, A. [1 ]
Adam, W. [2 ]
Ambrogi, F. [2 ]
Asilar, E. [2 ]
Bergauer, T. [2 ]
Brandstetter, J. [2 ]
Dragicevic, M. [2 ]
Eroe, J.
Del Valle, A. Escalante [2 ]
Flechl, M. [2 ]
Fruehwirth, R. [2 ,203 ]
Ghete, V. M. [2 ]
Hrubec, J. [2 ]
Jeitler, M. [2 ,203 ]
Krammer, N. [2 ]
Kraetschmer, I. [2 ]
Liko, D. [2 ]
Madlener, T. [2 ]
Mikulec, I. [2 ]
Rad, N. [2 ]
Rohringer, H. [2 ]
Schieck, J. [2 ,203 ]
Schoefbeck, R. [2 ]
Spanring, M. [2 ]
Spitzbart, D. [2 ]
Taurok, A. [2 ]
Waltenberger, W. [2 ]
Wittmann, J. [2 ]
Wulz, C. -E. [2 ,203 ]
Zarucki, M. [2 ]
Chekhovsky, V. [3 ]
Mossolov, V. [3 ]
Gonzalez, J. Suarez [3 ]
De Wolf, E. A. [4 ]
Di Croce, D. [4 ]
Janssen, X. [4 ]
Lauwers, J. [4 ]
Pieters, M. [4 ]
Van Haevermaet, H. [4 ]
Van Mechelen, P. [4 ]
Van Remortel, N. [4 ]
Abu Zeid, S. [5 ]
Blekman, F. [5 ]
D'Hondt, J. [5 ]
De Clercq, J. [5 ]
Deroover, K. [5 ]
Flouris, G. [5 ]
Lontkovskyi, D. [5 ]
Lowette, S. [5 ]
机构
[1] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan, Armenia
[2] Inst Hochenergiephys, Vienna, Austria
[3] Inst Nucl Problems, Minsk, BELARUS
[4] Univ Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
[5] Vrije Univ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
[6] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
[7] Univ Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
[8] Catholic Univ Louvain, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
[9] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[10] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[11] Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[12] Univ Fed ABC, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[13] Bulgarian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res & Nucl Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria
[14] Univ Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
[15] Beihang Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
[16] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[17] Peking Univ, State Key Lab Nucl Phys & Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China
[18] Tsinghua Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
[19] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[20] Univ Split, Fac Elect Engn Mech Engn & Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia
[21] Univ Split, Fac Sci, Split, Croatia
[22] Inst Rudjer Boskov, Zagreb, Croatia
[23] Univ Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
[24] Charles Univ Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
[25] Escuela Politec Nacl, Quito, Ecuador
[26] Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
[27] Egyptian Network High Energy Phys, Acad Sci Res & Technol Arab Republ Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
[28] NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia
[29] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Helsinki, Finland
[30] Helsinki Inst Phys, Helsinki, Finland
[31] Lappeenranta Univ Technol, Lappeenranta, Finland
[32] Univ Paris Saclay, CEA, IRFU, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[33] Univ Paris Saclay, IN2P3, CNRS, Lab Leprince Ringuet,Ecole Polytech, Palaiseau, France
[34] Univ Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC, UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
[35] CNRS, IN2P3, Ctr Calcul Inst Natl Phys Nucl & Phys Particules, Villeurbanne, France
[36] Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Lyon, CNRS, IN2P3,Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
[37] Georgian Tech Univ, Tbilisi, Georgia
[38] Tbilisi State Univ, Tbilisi, Georgia
[39] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst 1, Aachen, Germany
[40] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst A 3, Aachen, Germany
[41] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst B 3, Aachen, Germany
[42] DESY, Hamburg, Germany
[43] Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
[44] Karlsruher Inst Technol, Karlsruhe, Germany
[45] NCSR Demokritos, INPP, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
[46] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Athens, Greece
[47] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Athens, Greece
[48] Univ Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
[49] Eotvos Lorand Univ, MTA ELTE Lendulet CMS Particle & Nucl Phys Grp, Budapest, Hungary
[50] Wigner Res Ctr Phys, Budapest, Hungary
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2019年 / 79卷 / 02期
基金
欧洲研究理事会; 欧盟地平线“2020”; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 芬兰科学院;
关键词
PARTON SHOWERS; PP COLLISIONS; T QUARK; PHYSICS;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6556-3
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
A search is presented for the single production of vector-like quarks in proton-proton collisions at 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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