Search for Heavy Bottomlike Quarks Decaying to an Electron or Muon and Jets in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96 TeV
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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Makhoul, Khaldoun; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Bauer, Gerry P
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We report the most sensitive direct search for pair production of fourth-generation bottomlike chiral quarks (b′)[(b prime)] each decaying promptly to tW. We search for an excess of events with an electron or muon, at least five jets (one identified as due to a b or c quark), and an imbalance of transverse momentum by using data from pp̅ collisions collected by the CDF II detector at Fermilab with an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb-1 [fb superscript -1]. We observe events consistent with background expectation, calculate upper limits on the b′ [b prime] pair-production cross section (σbb̅ ′≲30 fb for mb′>375 GeV/c2) [delta subscript b b overstrike prime ≲ 30 fb for m subscript b prime > 375 GeV / c superscript 2)], and exclude mb′<372 GeV/c2 [m subscript b prime < 372 GeV / c superscript 2] at 95% confidence level assuming a 100% branching ratio of b′ [b prime] to tW.
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2011-04Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical review letters
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American Physical Society
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aaltonen, T. et al. "Search for Heavy Bottomlike Quarks Decaying to an Electron or Muon and Jets in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96 [square root = 1.96] TeV" Phys. Rev. Lett. v.106, 141803 (2011) © 2011 American Physical Society
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0031-9007