TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for pair production of heavy vector-like quarks decaying into high-(PT) W bosons and top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Aaboud, M.
AU - Aad, A.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abeloos, B
AU - Abhayasinghe, DK
AU - Abidi, S.H.
AU - Abouzeid, Ossama Sherif Alexander
AU - Abraham, NL
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B.S.
AU - Adachi, Shin-ichi
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adiguzel, A.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro
AU - Besjes, Geert-Jan
AU - Bajic, Milena
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
AU - de Almeida Dias, Flavia
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Thiele, Fabian Alexander Jürgen
AU - Stark, Simon Holm
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Xella, Stefania
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - A search is presented for the pair production of heavy vector-like B quarks, primarily targeting B quark decays into a W boson and a top quark. The search is based on 36.1 fb−1 of pp collisions at s=13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Data are analysed in the lepton-plus-jets final state, characterised by a high-transverse-momentum isolated electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum, and multiple jets, of which at least one is b-tagged. No significant deviation from the Standard Model expectation is observed. The 95% confidence level lower limit on the B mass is 1350 GeV assuming a 100% branching ratio to Wt. In the SU(2) singlet scenario, the lower mass limit is 1170 GeV. The 100% branching ratio limits are found to be also applicable to heavy vector-like X production, with charge +5/3, that decay into Wt. This search is also sensitive to a heavy vector-like B quark decaying into other final states (Zb and Hb) and thus mass limits on B production are set as a function of the decay branching ratios.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
AB - A search is presented for the pair production of heavy vector-like B quarks, primarily targeting B quark decays into a W boson and a top quark. The search is based on 36.1 fb−1 of pp collisions at s=13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Data are analysed in the lepton-plus-jets final state, characterised by a high-transverse-momentum isolated electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum, and multiple jets, of which at least one is b-tagged. No significant deviation from the Standard Model expectation is observed. The 95% confidence level lower limit on the B mass is 1350 GeV assuming a 100% branching ratio to Wt. In the SU(2) singlet scenario, the lower mass limit is 1170 GeV. The 100% branching ratio limits are found to be also applicable to heavy vector-like X production, with charge +5/3, that decay into Wt. This search is also sensitive to a heavy vector-like B quark decaying into other final states (Zb and Hb) and thus mass limits on B production are set as a function of the decay branching ratios.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP08(2018)048
DO - 10.1007/JHEP08(2018)048
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2018
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 8
M1 - 048
ER -