A search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson in the fully hadronic final state is presented. The analysis is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is focused on heavy resonances, where the decay products of each top quark or W boson are expected to be reconstructed as a single, large-radius jet with a distinct substructure. The production of an excited bottom quark, b*, is used as a benchmark when setting limits on the cross section for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson. The hypotheses of b* quarks with left-handed, right-handed, and vector-like chiralities are excluded at 95% confidence level for masses below 2.6, 2.8, and 3.1 TeV, respectively. These are the most stringent limits on the b* quark mass to date, extending the previous best limits by almost a factor of two. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., et al. (2021). Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson at √s = 13 TeV in the fully hadronic final state. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2021(12) [10.1007/JHEP12(2021)106].

Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson at √s = 13 TeV in the fully hadronic final state

Benaglia A.;Beschi A.;Brivio F.;Cetorelli F.;Ciriolo V.;De Guio F.;Dinardo M. E.;Ghezzi A.;Govoni P.;Guzzi L.;Malberti M.;Massironi A.;Monti F.;Paganoni M.;Ragazzi S.;Tabarelli de Fatis T.;Valsecchi D.;Zuolo D.;Ortona G.;Gerosa R.;Lucchini M. T.;
2021

Abstract

A search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson in the fully hadronic final state is presented. The analysis is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is focused on heavy resonances, where the decay products of each top quark or W boson are expected to be reconstructed as a single, large-radius jet with a distinct substructure. The production of an excited bottom quark, b*, is used as a benchmark when setting limits on the cross section for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson. The hypotheses of b* quarks with left-handed, right-handed, and vector-like chiralities are excluded at 95% confidence level for masses below 2.6, 2.8, and 3.1 TeV, respectively. These are the most stringent limits on the b* quark mass to date, extending the previous best limits by almost a factor of two. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
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Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Heavy quark production;
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2021
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Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., et al. (2021). Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson at √s = 13 TeV in the fully hadronic final state. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2021(12) [10.1007/JHEP12(2021)106].
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