Title: | Search for the production of an excited bottom quark decaying to tW in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV |
Authors: | Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Asilar, E Bergauer, T Brandstetter, J Brondolin, E Dragicevic, M Eroe, J Flechl, M Mccartin, J Choi, M Kim, H Kim, JH Lee, JSH Park, IC Ryu, G Choi, Y Choi, YK Goh, J Kim, D Rios, AAO Kwon, E Lee, J Yu, I Juodagalvis, A Vaitkus, J Ahmed, I Ibrahim, ZA Komaragiri, JR Ali, MABM Idris, FM Poyraz, D Abdullah, WATW Yusli, MN Casimiro Linares, E Castilla-Valdez, H De La Cruz-Burelo, E Heredia-de La Cruz, I Hernandez-Almada, A Lopez-Fernandez, R Sanchez-Hernandez, A Carrillo Moreno, S Ryckbosch, D Vazquez Valencia, F Pedraza, I Salazar Ibarguen, HA Morelos Pineda, A Krofcheck, D Butler, PH Reucroft, S Ahmad, A Ahmad, M Hassan, Q Salva, S Hoorani, HR Khan, WA Khurshid, T Shoaib, M Bialkowska, H Bluj, M Boimska, B Frueboes, T Gorski, M Kazana, M Sigamani, M Nawrocki, K Romanowska-Rybinska, K Szleper, M Zalewski, P Brona, G Bunkowski, K Doroba, K Kalinowski, A Konecki, M Krolikowski, J Strobbe, N Misiura, M Olszewski, M Walczak, M Bargassa, P Beira Da Cruz E Silva, C Di Francesco, A Faccioli, P Ferreira Parracho, PC Gallinaro, M Leonardo, N Tytgat, M Lloret Iglesias, L Nguyen, F Rodrigues Antunes, J Seixas, J Toldaiev, O Vadruccio, D Varela, J Vischia, P Afanasiev, S Bunin, P Van Driessche, W Gavrilenko, M Golutvin, I Gorbunov, I Kamenev, A Karjavin, V Konoplyanikov, V Laney, A Malakhov, A Matveev, V Moisenz, P Yazgan, E Palichik, V Perelygin, V Shmatov, S Shulha, S Skatchkov, N Smirnov, V Zarubin, A Golovtsov, V Ivanov, Y Kim, V Friedl, M Zaganidis, N Kuznetsova, E Levchenko, P Murzin, V Oreshkin, V Smirnov, I Sulimov, V Uvarov, L Vavilov, S Vorobyev, A Andreev, Y Basegmez, S Dermenev, A Gninenko, S Golubev, N Karneyeu, A Kirsanov, M Krasnikov, N Pashenkov, A Tlisov, D Toropin, A Epshteyn, V Beluffi, C Gavrilov, V Lychkovskaya, N Popov, V Pozdnyakov, I Safronov, G Spiridonov, A Vlasov, E Zhokin, A Bylinkin, A Andreev, V Bondu, O Azarkin, M Dremin, I Kirakosyan, M Leonidov, A Mesyats, G Rusakov, SV Vinogradov, A Baskakov, A Belyaev, A Boos, E Brochet, S Dubinin, M Dudko, L Ershov, A Gribushin, A Klyukhin, V Kodolova, O Lokhtin, I Myagkov, I Obraztsov, S Petrushanko, S Bruno, G Savrin, V Snigirev, A Azhgirey, I Bayshev, I Bitioukov, S Kachanov, V Kalinin, A Konstantinov, D Krychkine, V Petrov, V Castello, R Ryutin, R Sobol, A Tourtchanovitch, L Troshin, S Tyurin, N Uzunian, A Volkov, A Adzic, P Ekmedzic, M Milosevic, J Caudron, A Rekovic, V Alcaraz Maestre, J Calvo, E Cerrada, M Chamizo Llatas, M Colino, N De La Cruz, B Delgado Peris, A Dominguez Vazquez, D Escalante Del Valle, A Ceard, L Fernandez Bedoya, C Fernandez Ramos, JP Flix, J Fouz, MC Garcia-Abia, P Gonzalez Lopez, O Goy Lopez, S Hernandez, JM Josa, MI Navarro De Martino, E Da Silveira, GG Perez-Calero Yzquierdo, A Puerta Pelayo, J Quintario Olmeda, A Redondo, I Romero, L Soares, MS Albajar, C de Troconiz, JF Missiroli, M Moran, D Fruehwirth, R Delaere, C Brun, H Cuevas, J Fernandez Menendez, J Folgueras, S Gonzalez Caballero, I 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Lee, B Lee, K Lee, KS Lee, S Park, SK Roh, Y Yoo, HD |
Keywords: | Jet substructure;Hadron-Hadron scattering;Beyond Standard Model |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Citation: | Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016: 166, (2016) |
Abstract: | A search is presented for a singly produced excited bottom quark (b*) decaying to a top quark and a W boson in the all-hadronic, lepton+jets, and dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1 are used. No significant excess of events is observed with respect to standard model expectations. We set limits at 95% confidence on the product of the b* quark production cross section and its branching fraction to tW. The cross section limits are interpreted for scenarios including left-handed, right-handed, and vector-like couplings of the b* quark and are presented in the two-dimensional coupling plane based on the production and decay coupling constants. The masses of the left-handed, right-handed, and vector-like b* quark states are excluded at 95% confidence below 1390, 1430, and 1530 GeV, respectively, for benchmark couplings. This analysis gives the most stringent limits on the mass of the b∗ quark to date. |
URI: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP01%282016%29166 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12327 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep01(2016)166 |
ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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