dc.contributor.author | Sirunyan, A. M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sanders, Stephen J. | |
dc.contributor.author | CMS Collaboration | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-08T19:48:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-08T19:48:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-01-30 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sirunyan, A.M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W. et al. Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a top quark and a W boson in proton–proton collisions at 𝑠√=13TeV. Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 90 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6556-3 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31070 | |
dc.description | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | A search is presented for the single production of vector-like quarks in proton–proton collisions at 𝑠√=13TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb−1, were recorded with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis focuses on the vector-like quark decay into a top quark and a W boson, with one muon or electron in the final state. The mass of the vector-like quark candidate is reconstructed from hadronic jets, the lepton, and the missing transverse momentum. Methods for the identification of b quarks and of highly Lorentz boosted hadronically decaying top quarks and W bosons are exploited in this search. No significant deviation from the standard model background expectation is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction as a function of the vector-like quark mass, which range from 0.3 to 0.03pb for vector-like quark masses of 700 to 2000GeV. Mass exclusion limits up to 1660GeV are obtained, depending on the vector-like quark type, coupling, and decay width. These represent the most stringent exclusion limits for the single production of vector-like quarks in this channel. | en_US |
dc.publisher | SpringerOpen | en_US |
dc.rights | © CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration 2019. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a top quark and a W boson in proton–proton collisions at 𝑠√=13TeV | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Sanders, Stephen J. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6556-3 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |