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Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson using boosted topologies in fully hadronic final states

Sirunyan, Albert M
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Tumasyan, Armen
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Adam, Wolfgang
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April 21, 2017
Journal of High Energy Physics

A search is performed for electroweak production of a vector-like top quark partner T of charge 2/3 in association with a standard model top or bottom quark, using 2.3 fb$^{−1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. The search targets T quarks decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson in fully hadronic final states. For a T quark with mass above 1 TeV the daughter top quark and Higgs boson are highly Lorentz-boosted and can each appear as a single hadronic jet. Jet substructure and b tagging techniques are used to identify the top quark and Higgs boson jets, and to suppress the standard model backgrounds. An excess of events is searched for in the T quark candidate mass distribution in the data, which is found to be consistent with the expected backgrounds. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of the single T quark production cross sections and the branching fraction $ \mathrm{\mathcal{B}}\left(\mathrm{T}\to \mathrm{t}\mathrm{H}\right) $ , and these vary between 0.31 and 0.93 pb for T quark masses in the range 1000-1800 GeV. This is the first search for single electroweak production of a vector-like T quark in fully hadronic final states.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/JHEP04(2017)136
ArXiv ID

1612.05336

Author(s)
Sirunyan, Albert M
Tumasyan, Armen
Adam, Wolfgang
Aşılar, Ece
Bergauer, Thomas
Brandstetter, Johannes
Brondolin, Erica
Dragicevic, Marko
Erö, Janos
Flechl, Martin
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Date Issued

2017-04-21

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published in
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume

2017

Issue

4

Start page

136

Subjects

p p: colliding beams

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final state: hadronic

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quark: postulated particle

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quark: single production

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quark: associated production

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quark: vector particle

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quark: mass

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mass: lower limit

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jet: hadronic

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final state: ((n)jet)

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cross section: branching ratio: upper limit

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mass dependence

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charge: 2/3

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bottom: particle identification

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p p: scattering

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Higgs particle: boosted particle

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top: boosted particle

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electroweak interaction

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background

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CERN LHC Coll

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mass spectrum

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structure

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CERN Lab

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topology

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CMS

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experimental results

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13000 GeV-cms

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

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