Search for resonant top quark plus jet production in tt̅ +jets events with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s=7  TeV

G. Aad, Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, John Renner Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Sascha Mehlhase, Björn Stefan Nilsson, Troels Christian Petersen, Stefania Xella, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen

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Abstract

This paper presents a search for a new heavy particle produced in association with a top or antitop quark. Two models in which the new heavy particle is a color singlet or a color triplet are considered, decaying, respectively, to t̄q or tq, leading to a resonance within the tt̄+jets signature. The full 2011 ATLAS pp collision data set from the LHC (4.7fb -1) is used to search for tt̄ events produced in association with jets, in which one of the W bosons from the top quarks decays leptonically and the other decays hadronically. The data are consistent with the Standard Model expectation, and a new particle with mass below 430 Gev for both W boson and color triplet models is excluded at 95% confidence level, assuming unit right-handed coupling.

Original languageEnglish
Article number091103
JournalPhysical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume86
Issue number9
Number of pages20
ISSN1550-7998
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Nov 2012

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