Title: | Search for a W ' boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV |
Authors: | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Eroe, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruehwirth, R du Pree, T Safronov, G Semenov, S Stolin, V Vlasov, E Zhokin, A Belyaev, A Boos, E Bunichev, V Dubinin, M Dudko, L Favart, D Ershov, A Gribushin, A Klyukhin, V Lokhtin, I Markina, A Obraztsov, S Perfilov, M Petrushanko, S Popov, A Sarycheva, L Forthomme, L Savrin, V Snigirev, A Andreev, V Azarkin, M Dremin, I Kirakosyan, M Leonidov, A Mesyats, G Rusakov, SV Vinogradov, A Giammanco, A Azhgirey, I Bayshev, I Bitioukov, S Grishin, V Kachanov, V Konstantinov, D Korablev, A Krychkine, V Petrov, V Ryutin, R Hollar, J Sobol, A Tourtchanovitch, L Troshin, S Tyurin, N Uzunian, A Volkov, A Adzic, P Djordjevic, M Ekmedzic, M Krpic, D Lemaitre, V Milosevic, J Adzic, P Djordjevic, M Ekmedzic, M Krpic, D Milosevic, J Aguilar-Benitez, M Alcaraz Maestre, J Arce, P Battilana, C Liao, J Calvo, E Cerrada, M Chamizo Llatas, M Colino, N De La Cruz, B Delgado Peris, A Dominguez Vazquez, D Fernandez Bedoya, C Fernandez Ramos, JP Ferrando, A Militaru, O Flix, J Fouz, MC Garcia-Abia, P Gonzalez Lopez, O Goy Lopez, S Hernandez, JM Josa, MI Merino, G Puerta Pelayo, J Quintario Olmeda, A Nuttens, C Redondo, I Romero, L Santaolalla, J Soares, MS Willmott, C Albajar, C Codispoti, G de Troconiz, JF Brun, H Cuevas, J Pagano, D Fernandez Menendez, J Folgueras, S Gonzalez Caballero, I Lloret Iglesias, L Piedra Gomez, J Brochero Cifuentes, JA Cabrillo, IJ Calderon, A Chuang, SH Duarte Campderros, J Ghete, VM Perrini, L Felcini, M Fernandez, M Gomez, G Gonzalez Sanchez, J Jorda, C Lopez Virto, A Marco, J Marco, R Martinez Rivero, C Matorras, F Pin, A Munoz Sanchez, FJ Rodrigo, T Rodriguez-Marrero, AY Ruiz-Jimeno, A Scodellaro, L Sobron Sanudo, M Vila, I Vilar Cortabitarte, R Abbaneo, D Auffray, E Piotrzkowski, K Auzinger, G Baillon, P Ball, AH Barney, D Benitez, JF Bernet, C Bianchi, G Bloch, P Bocci, A Bonato, A Schul, N Botta, C Breuker, H Camporesi, T Cerminara, G Christiansen, T Perez, JAC D'Enterria, D Dabrowski, A De Roeck, A Di Guida, S Garcia, JMV Dobson, M Dupont-Sagorin, N Elliott-Peisert, A Frisch, B Funk, W Georgiou, G Giffels, M Gigi, D Gill, K Giordano, D Beliy, N Giunta, M Glege, F Garrido, RG-R Govoni, P Gowdy, S Guida, R Hansen, M Harris, P Hartl, C Harvey, J Caebergs, T Hegner, B Hinzmann, A Innocente, V Janot, P Kaadze, K Karavakis, E Kousouris, K Lecoq, P Lee, Y-J Lenzi, P Daubie, E Lourenco, C Maeki, T Malberti, M Malgeri, L Mannelli, M Masetti, L Meijers, F Mersi, S Meschi, E Moser, R Hammad, GH Mozer, MU Mulders, M Musella, P Nesvold, E Orimoto, T Orsini, L Cortezon, EP Perez, E Perrozzi, L Petrilli, A Alves, GA Pfeiffer, A Pierini, M Pimiae, M Piparo, D Polese, G Quertenmont, L Racz, A Reece, W Antunes, JR Rolandi, G Hammer, J Correa Martins Junior, M Rommerskirchen, T Rovelli, C Rovere, M Sakulin, H Santanastasio, F Schaefer, C Schwick, C Segoni, I Sekmen, S Sharma, A De Jesus Damiao, D Siegrist, P Silva, P 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Keywords: | Physics;CMS;W ' |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Physics Letters B, 718(4-5), 1229 - 1251, 2013 |
Abstract: | Results are presented from a search for a W′boson using a dataset corresponding to 5.0 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity collected during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at (Square root)s=7 TeV. The W′ boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the couplings to fermions are considered, involving both left-handed and right-handed chiral projections of the fermions, as well as an arbitrary mixture of the two. The search is performed in the decay channel W′→tb, leading to a final state signature with a single electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and jets, at least one of which is identified as a b-jet. A W′ boson that couples to the right-handed (left-handed) chiral projections of the fermions with the same coupling constants as the W is excluded for masses below 1.85 (1.51) TeV at the 95% confidence level. For the first time using LHC data, constraints on the W′ gauge couplings for a set of left- and right-handed coupling combinations have been placed. These results represent a significant improvement over previously published limits. |
Description: | This article is the pre-print version of the final published paper that is available from the link above |
URI: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269312012476 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7815 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.12.008 |
ISSN: | 0370-2693 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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