Title: | Search for pair production of excited top quarks in the lepton + jets final state |
Authors: | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Erö, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Frühwirth, R Beluffi, C Palichik, V Perelygin, V Shmatov, S Skatchkov, N Smirnov, V Zarubin, A Evstyukhin, S Golovtsov, V Ivanov, Y Kim, V Bruno, G Levchenko, P Murzin, V Oreshkin, V Smirnov, I Sulimov, V Uvarov, L Vavilov, S Vorobyev, A Vorobyev, A Andreev, Y Castello, R Dermenev, A Gninenko, S Golubev, N Kirsanov, M Krasnikov, N Pashenkov, A Tlisov, D Toropin, A Epshteyn, V Erofeeva, M Caudron, A Gavrilov, V Lychkovskaya, N Popov, V Safronov, G Semenov, S Spiridonov, A Stolin, V Vlasov, E Zhokin, A Andreev, V Ceard, L Azarkin, M Dremin, I Kirakosyan, M Leonidov, A Mesyats, G Rusakov, SV Vinogradov, A Belyaev, A Boos, E Bunichev, V Da Silveira, GG Dubinin, M Dudko, L Ershov, A Gribushin, A Klyukhin, V Kodolova, O Lokhtin, I Markina, A Obraztsov, S Petrushanko, S Delaere, C Savrin, V Azhgirey, I Bayshev, I Bitioukov, S Kachanov, V Kalinin, A Konstantinov, D Krychkine, V Petrov, V Ryutin, R Du Pree, T Sobol, A Tourtchanovitch, L Troshin, S Tyurin, N Uzunian, A Volkov, A Adzic, P Djordjevic, M Ekmedzic, M Krpic, D Favart, D Milosevic, J Aguilar-Benitez, M Maestre, JA Battilana, C Calvo, E Cerrada, M Llatas, MC Colino, N De La Cruz, B Peris, AD Forthomme, L Vázquez, DD Bedoya, CF Ramos, JPF Ferrando, A Flix, J Fouz, MC Garcia-Abia, P Lopez, OG Lopez, SG Hernandez, JM Ghete, VM Giammanco, A Josa, MI Merino, G De Martino, EN Pelayo, JP Olmeda, AQ Redondo, I Romero, L Santaolalla, J Soares, MS Willmott, C Hollar, J Albajar, C De Trocóniz, JF Brun, H Cuevas, J Menendez, JF Folgueras, S Caballero, IG Iglesias, LL Gomez, JP Cifuentes, JAB Jez, P Cabrillo, IJ Calderon, A Chuang, SH Campderros, JD Fernandez, M Gomez, G Sanchez, JG Graziano, A Jorda, C Virto, AL Lemaitre, V Marco, J Marco, R Rivero, CM Matorras, F Sanchez, FJM Rodrigo, T Rodríguez-Marrero, AY Ruiz-Jimeno, A Scodellaro, L Vila, I Liao, J Cortabitarte, RV Abbaneo, D Auffray, E Auzinger, G Bachtis, M Baillon, P Ball, AH Barney, D Bendavid, J Benitez, JF Militaru, O Bernet, C Bianchi, G Bloch, P Bocci, A Bonato, A Bondu, O Botta, C Breuker, H Camporesi, T Cerminara, G Nuttens, C Christiansen, T Perez, JAC Colafranceschi, S D'alfonso, M D'enterria, D Dabrowski, A David, A De Guio, F De Roeck, A De Visscher, S Pagano, D Di Guida, S Dobson, M Dupont-Sagorin, N Elliott-Peisert, A Eugster, J Funk, W Georgiou, G Giffels, M Gigi, D Gill, K Pin, A Giordano, D Girone, M Giunta, M Glege, F Garrido, RG-R Gowdy, S Guida, R Hammer, J Hansen, M Harris, P Piotrzkowski, K Hartl, C Hinzmann, A Innocente, V Janot, P Karavakis, E Kousouris, K Krajczar, K Lecoq, P Lee, Y-J Lourenço, C Hörmann, N Popov, A Magini, N Malgeri, L Mannelli, M Masetti, L Meijers, F Mersi, S Meschi, E Moser, R Mulders, M Musella, P Selvaggi, M Nesvold, E Orsini, L Cortezon, EP Perez, E Perrozzi, L Petrilli, A Pfeiffer, A Pierini, M Pimiä, M Piparo, D Marono, MV Plagge, M Quertenmont, L Racz, A Reece, W 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Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering;Top physics |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Citation: | Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(6): 125, (19 June 2014) |
Abstract: | A search is performed for pair-produced spin-3/2 excited top quarks (t*t̄*), each decaying to a top quark and a gluon. The search uses data collected with the CMS detector from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV, selecting events that have a single isolated muon or electron, an imbalance in transverse momentum, and at least six jets, of which one must be compatible with originating from the fragmentation of a b quark. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb-1, show no significant excess over standard model predictions, and provide a lower limit of 803 GeV at 95% confidence on the mass of the spin-3/2 t* quark in an extension of the Randall-Sundrum model, assuming a 100% branching fraction of its decay into a top quark and a gluon. This is the first search for a spin-3/2 excited top quark performed at the LHC. |
Description: | Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
URI: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP06%282014%29125 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9329 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2014)125 |
ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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