Title: | Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t -> Zq in pp Collisions at s=8 TeV |
Authors: | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Eroe, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruehwirth, R Volkov, A Luckey, PD Ma, T Paus, C Ralph, D Roland, C Roland, G Stephans, GSF Stoeckli, F Sumorok, K Kraetschmer, I Adzic, P Ban, Y Velicanu, D Veverka, J Wyslouch, B Yang, M Yoon, AS Zanetti, M Zhukova, V Dahmes, B De Benedetti, A Djordjevic, M Gude, A Guo, Y Kao, SC Klapoetke, K Kubota, Y Mans, J Pastika, N Rusack, R Singovsky, A Tambe, N Ekmedzic, M Turkewitz, J Acosta, JG Li, Q Cremaldi, LM Kroeger, R Oliveros, S Perera, L Rahmat, R Sanders, DA Summers, D Milosevic, J Avdeeva, E Bloom, K Bose, S Li, W Claes, DR Dominguez, A Suarez, RG Keller, J Kravchenko, I Lazo-Flores, J Aguilar-Benitez, M Malik, S Meier, F Snow, GR Dolen, J Liu, S Godshalk, A Iashvili, I Jain, S Kharchilava, A Kumar, A Alcaraz Maestre, J Rappoccio, S Wan, Z Alverson, G Barberis, E Baumgartel, D Mao, Y Chasco, M Haley, J Massironi, A Nash, D Battilana, C Orimoto, T Trocino, D Wood, D Zhang, J Anastassov, A Hahn, KA Qian, SJ Kubik, A Lusito, L Mucia, N Calvo, E Odell, N Pollack, B Pozdnyakov, A Schmitt, M Stoynev, S Sung, K Velasco, M Wang, D Won, S Berry, D Cerrada, M Brinkerhoff, A Chan, KM Drozdetskiy, A Hildreth, M Jessop, C Karmgard, DJ Kolb, J Lannon, K Zhang, L Luo, W Zaganidis, N Du Pree, T Lynch, S Marinelli, N Morse, DM Pearson, T Planer, M Ruchti, R Slaunwhite, J Valls, N Wayne, M Zou, W Chamizo Llatas, M Wolf, M Antonelli, L Bylsma, B Durkin, LS Flowers, S Hill, C Hughes, R Kotov, K Ling, TY Puigh, D Colino, N Liko, D Avila, C Rodenburg, M Smith, G Vuosalo, C Winer, BL Wolfe, H Wulsin, HW Berry, E Elmer, P De La Cruz, B Halyo, V Hebda, P Carrillo Montoya, CA Hegeman, J Hunt, A Jindal, P Koay, SA Lujan, P Marlow, D Medvedeva, T Delgado Peris, A Mooney, M Olsen, J Piroue, P Chaparro Sierra, LF Quan, X Raval, A Saka, H Stickland, D Tully, C Werner, JS Dominguez Vazquez, D Zenz, SC Zuranski, A Brownson, E Lopez, A Florez, C Mendez, H Vargas, JER Alagoz, E Benedetti, D Bolla, G Fernandez Bedoya, C Bortoletto, D De Mattia, M Everett, A Hu, Z Jones, M Gomez, JP Jung, K Kress, M Leonardo, N Pegna, DL Fernandez Ramos, JP Maroussov, V Merkel, P Miller, DH Neumeister, N Radburn-Smith, BC Shipsey, I Gomez Moreno, B Silvers, D Svyatkovskiy, A Wang, F Ferrando, A Xie, W Xu, L Yoo, HD Zablocki, J Zheng, Y Parashar, N Adair, A Sanabria, JC Akgun, B Ecklund, KM Flix, J Geurts, FJM Li, W Michlin, B Padley, BP Redjimi, R Roberts, J Zabel, J Betchart, B Godinovic, N Bodek, A Karjavin, V Fouz, MC Covarelli, R de Barbaro, P Demina, R Eshaq, Y Ferbel, T Garcia-Bellido, A Goldenzweig, P Han, J Harel, A Lelas, D Ghete, VM Miner, DC Petrillo, G Vishnevskiy, D Zielinski, M Bhatti, A Ciesielski, R Demortier, L Goulianos, K Lungu, G Malik, S Favart, D Polic, D Mesropian, C Arora, S Barker, A Chou, JP Contreras-Campana, C Contreras-Campana, E Duggan, D Ferencek, D Gershtein, Y Garcia-Abia, P Gray, R Mikulec, I Puljak, I Halkiadakis, E Hidas, D Lath, A 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Keywords: | CMS;Top-quark decays;LHC;Proton-proton collisions |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters, 112(17): 171802, (2 May 2014) |
Abstract: | A search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t→Zq is performed in events produced from the decay chain tt¯→Zq+Wb, where both vector bosons decay leptonically, producing a final state with three leptons (electrons or muons). A data set collected with the CMS detector at the LHC is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. No excess is seen in the observed number of events relative to the standard model prediction; thus, no evidence for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays is found. A combination with a previous search at 7 TeV excludes a t→Zq branching fraction greater than 0.05% at the 95% confidence level. |
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URI: | http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.171802 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9324 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.171802 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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