Search for same-sign top-quark pair production at √ s = 7 TeV and limits on flavour changing neutral currents in the top sector
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Author(s)
The CMS Collaboration
Alver, Burak Han
Bauer, Gerry P
Bendavid, Joshua L.
Busza, Wit
Butz, Erik M.
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Dutta, Valentina
Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart
Date Issued
2011
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
Chatrchyan, S., et al. "Search for Same-Sign Top-Quark Pair Production at Root S=7 Tev and Limits on Flavour Changing Neutral Currents in the Top Sector." Journal of High Energy Physics 8 (2011).
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Abstract
An inclusive search for same-sign top-quark pair production in pp collisions at √s = 7TeV is performed using a data sample recorded with the CMS detector in 2010, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb -1. This analysis is motivated by recent studies of pp → tt reporting mass-dependent forward-backward asymmetries larger than expected from the standard model. These asymmetries could be due to Flavor Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) in the top sector induced by t-channel exchange of a massive neutral vector boson (Z'). Models with such a Z' also predict enhancement of same-sign top-pair production in pp or pp collisions. Limits are set as a function of the Z' mass and its couplings to u and t quarks. These limits disfavour the FCNC interpretation of the Tevatron results. © SISSA 2011.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2011)005
