A search for electroweak production of a single vectorlike T quark in association with a bottom (b) quark in the all-hadronic decay channel is presented. This search uses proton-proton collision data at pffiffi s ¼ 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC during 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The T quark is assumed to have charge 2=3 and decay to a top (t) quark and a Higgs (H) or Z boson. Hadronic decays of the t quark and the H or Z boson are reconstructed from the kinematic properties of jets, including those containing b hadrons. No deviation from the standard model prediction is observed in the reconstructed tH and tZ invariant mass distributions. The 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction of a T quark produced in association with a b quark and decaying via tH or tZ range from 1260 to 68 fb for T quark masses of 600–1200 GeV.

Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., et al. (2024). Search for production of a single vectorlike quark decaying to tH or tZ in the all-hadronic final state in pp collisions at [Formula presented]. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 110(7) [10.1103/PhysRevD.110.072012].

Search for production of a single vectorlike quark decaying to tH or tZ in the all-hadronic final state in pp collisions at [Formula presented]

Xiao J.;Boldrini G.;Brivio F.;Cetorelli F.;De Guio F.;Dinardo M. E.;Gerosa R.;Ghezzi A.;Govoni P.;Guzzi L.;Lucchini M. T.;Paganoni M.;Pinolini B. S.;Ragazzi S.;Tabarelli de Fatis T.;Zuolo D.;
2024

Abstract

A search for electroweak production of a single vectorlike T quark in association with a bottom (b) quark in the all-hadronic decay channel is presented. This search uses proton-proton collision data at pffiffi s ¼ 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC during 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The T quark is assumed to have charge 2=3 and decay to a top (t) quark and a Higgs (H) or Z boson. Hadronic decays of the t quark and the H or Z boson are reconstructed from the kinematic properties of jets, including those containing b hadrons. No deviation from the standard model prediction is observed in the reconstructed tH and tZ invariant mass distributions. The 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction of a T quark produced in association with a b quark and decaying via tH or tZ range from 1260 to 68 fb for T quark masses of 600–1200 GeV.
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Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., et al. (2024). Search for production of a single vectorlike quark decaying to tH or tZ in the all-hadronic final state in pp collisions at [Formula presented]. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 110(7) [10.1103/PhysRevD.110.072012].
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