Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson using boosted topologies in fully hadronic final states
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CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Apyan, Aram
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bi, Ran
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Date Issued
April 2017
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Nature
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Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for Electroweak Production of a Vector-Like Quark Decaying to a Top Quark and a Higgs Boson Using Boosted Topologies in Fully Hadronic Final States.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2017, 4 (April 2017): 136 © 2017 The Author(s)
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Abstract
A search is performed for electroweak production of a vector-like top quark partner T of charge 2/3 in association with a standard model top or bottom quark, using 2.3 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collision data at √s = 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. The search targets T quarks decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson in fully hadronic final states. For a T quark with mass above 1 TeV the daughter top quark and Higgs boson are highly Lorentz-boosted and can each appear as a single hadronic jet. Jet substructure and b tagging techniques are used to identify the top quark and Higgs boson jets, and to suppress the standard model backgrounds. An excess of events is searched for in the T quark candidate mass distribution in the data, which is found to be consistent with the expected backgrounds. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of the single T quark production cross sections and the branching fraction ℬ (T → tH) , and these vary between 0.31 and 0.93 pb for T quark masses in the range 1000-1800 GeV. This is the first search for single electroweak production of a vector-like T quark in fully hadronic final states. Keywords: Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Top physics
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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/JHEP04(2017)136
