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Title: | Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a vector-like top quark in the lepton + jets final state in pp collisions at √ s=13TeV |
Authors: | Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Ambrogi, F Asilar, E Bergauer, T Brandstetter, J Dragicevic, M Erö, J Del Valle, AE Flechl, M Dobur, D Fagot, A Gul, M Khvastunov, I Poyraz, D Roskas, C Trocino, D Tytgat, M Verbeke, W Vermassen, B Vit, M Zaganidis, N Bakhshiansohi, H Bondu, O Brochet, S Bruno, G Caputo, C David, P Delaere, C Cole, JE Hobson, PR Khan, A Kyberd, P Mackay, CK Morton, A Reid, ID Teodorescu, L Zahid, S Frühwirth, R Ghete, VM Hrubec, J Jeitler, M Krammer, N Krätschmer, I Liko, D Madlener, T Mikulec, I Rad, N Rohringer, H Schieck, J Schöfbeck, R Spanring, M Spitzbart, D Taurok, A Waltenberger, W Wittmann, J Wulz, CE Zarucki, M Chekhovsky, V Mossolov, V Gonzalez, JS De Wolf, EA Di Croce, D Janssen, X Lauwers, J Pieters, M Van Haevermaet, H Van Mechelen, P Van Remortel, N Zeid, SA Blekman, F D Hondt, J De Clercq, J Deroover, K Flouris, G Lontkovskyi, D Lowette, S Marchesini, I Moortgat, S Moreels, L Python, Q Skovpen, K Tavernier, S Van Doninck, W Van Mulders, P Van Parijs, I Beghin, D Bilin, B Brun, H Clerbaux, B De Lentdecker, G Delannoy, H Dorney, B Fasanella, G Favart, L Goldouzian, R Grebenyuk, A Kalsi, AK Lenzi, T Luetic, J Postiau, N Starling, E Thomas, L Velde, CV Vanlaer, P Vannerom, D Wang, Q Cornelis, T |
Issue Date: | 7-Mar-2019 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Citation: | European Physical Journal C, 2019, 79 (3), pp. 1 - 32 |
Abstract: | © 2019, CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. A search is presented for a heavy spin-1 resonance Z ′ decaying to a top quark and a vector-like top quark partner T in the lepton + jets final state. The search is performed using a data set of p p collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb-1 as recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in the year 2016. The analysis is optimised for final states arising from the T decay modes to a top quark and a Higgs or Z boson (T → H t , Z t). The event selection makes use of resolved and merged top quark decay products, as well as decays of boosted Higgs bosons and Z and W bosons using jet substructure techniques. No significant deviation from the standard model background expectation is observed. Exclusion limits on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for Z ′ → t T , T → H t , Z t , W b are presented for various combinations of the Z ′ resonance mass and the vector-like T quark mass. These results represent the most stringent limits to date for the decay mode Z ′ → t T → t H t. In a benchmark model with extra dimensions, invoking a heavy spin-1 resonance G ∗ , masses of the G ∗ between 1.5 and 2.3TeV and between 2.0 and 2.4TeV are excluded for T masses of 1.2 and 1.5TeV, respectively. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17853 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6688-5 |
ISSN: | 1434-6044 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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