A search is presented for pair production of a new heavy quark (Q) that decays into a W boson and a light quark (q) in the final state where one W boson decays leptonically (to an electron or muon plus a neutrino) and the other W boson decays hadronically. The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 of pp collisions at s=8 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No evidence of QQ¯ production is observed. New chiral quarks with masses below 690 GeV are excluded at 95\% confidence level, assuming BR(Q→Wq)=1. Results are also interpreted in the context of vectorlike quark models, resulting in the limits on the mass of a vectorlike quark in the two-dimensional plane of BR(Q→Wq) versus BR(Q→Hq). © 2015 CERN.
Search for pair production of a new heavy quark that decays into a W boson and a light quark in pp collisions at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector / Aad, G., Aloisio, A., Alviggi, M., Canale, V., DELLA VOLPE, D., Merola, L., Conventi, F., DELLA PIETRA, M., Giordano, R., Perrella, S., Rossi, E., Cirotto, F., SANCHEZ PINEDA, A.R., Carlino, G., DE ASMUNDIS, R., DI DONATO, C., Doria, A., Iengo, P., Izzo, V., Sekhniaidze, G., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY. - ISSN 1550-7998. - 92:11(2015). [10.1103/PhysRevD.92.112007]
Search for pair production of a new heavy quark that decays into a W boson and a light quark in pp collisions at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
ALOISIO, ALBERTO;ALVIGGI, MARIAGRAZIA;CANALE, VINCENZO;DELLA VOLPE, DOMENICO;MEROLA, LEONARDO;CONVENTI, FRANCESCO;DELLA PIETRA, MASSIMO;GIORDANO, RAFFAELE;PERRELLA, SABRINA;ROSSI, ELVIRA;CIROTTO, FRANCESCO;SANCHEZ PINEDA, ARTURO RODOLFO;CARLINO, GIANPAOLO;DE ASMUNDIS, Riccardo;DI DONATO, CAMILLA;IENGO, PAOLO;IZZO, VINCENZO;
2015
Abstract
A search is presented for pair production of a new heavy quark (Q) that decays into a W boson and a light quark (q) in the final state where one W boson decays leptonically (to an electron or muon plus a neutrino) and the other W boson decays hadronically. The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 of pp collisions at s=8 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No evidence of QQ¯ production is observed. New chiral quarks with masses below 690 GeV are excluded at 95\% confidence level, assuming BR(Q→Wq)=1. Results are also interpreted in the context of vectorlike quark models, resulting in the limits on the mass of a vectorlike quark in the two-dimensional plane of BR(Q→Wq) versus BR(Q→Hq). © 2015 CERN.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
