Search for flavor changing neutral currents in top quark decays in pp collisions at 7 TeV
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Apyan, Aram
Bendavid, Joshua L.
Busza, Wit
Butz, Erik M.
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Hahn, Kristian Allan
Kim, Y.
Date Issued
December 2012
Journal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, E. Aguilo, T. Bergauer, et al. “Search for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in Top Quark Decays in Pp Collisions at 7 TeV.” Physics Letters B 718, no. 4–5 (January 2013): 1252–1272. © 2012 CERN
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Abstract
The results of a search for flavor changing neutral currents in top quark decays t→Zq in events with a topology compatible with the decay chain tt¯→Wb+Zq→ℓνb+ℓℓq are presented. The search is performed with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1] of proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The observed number of events agrees with the standard model prediction and no evidence for flavor changing neutral currents in top quark decays is found. A t→Zq branching fraction greater than 0.21% is excluded at the 95% confidence level.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.12.045
