Search for t[¯ over t] resonances in the lepton plus jets final state with ATLAS using 4.7 fb[superscript -1] of pp collisions at √s=7 TeV
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Taylor, Frank E.
Date Issued
July 2013
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Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Aad, G., T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, A. A. Abdelalim, O. Abdinov, et al. “Search for tt[over ¯] resonances in the lepton plus jets final state with ATLAS using 4.7 fb^{-1} of pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV.” Physical Review D 88, no. 1 (July 2013). © 2013 CERN
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Abstract
A search for new particles that decay into top quark pairs (tt̅ ) is performed with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb[superscript -1] of proton–proton (pp) collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy √s=7 TeV. In the tt̅ →WbWb decay, the lepton plus jets final state is used, where one W boson decays leptonically and the other hadronically. The tt̅ system is reconstructed using both small-radius and large-radius jets, the latter being supplemented by a jet substructure analysis. A search for local excesses in the number of data events compared to the Standard Model expectation in the tt̅ invariant mass spectrum is performed. No evidence for a tt̅ resonance is found and 95% credibility-level limits on the production rate are determined for massive states predicted in two benchmark models. The upper limits on the cross section times branching ratio of a narrow Z[superscript ′] resonance range from 5.1 pb for a boson mass of 0.5 TeV to 0.03 pb for a mass of 3 TeV. A narrow leptophobic topcolor Z[superscript ′] resonance with a mass below 1.74 TeV is excluded. Limits are also derived for a broad color-octet resonance with Γ/m=15.3%. A Kaluza–Klein excitation of the gluon in a Randall–Sundrum model is excluded for masses below 2.07 TeV.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.012004
