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Search for W'?tb?qqbb decays in pp collisions at vs=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:55 authored by Benedict AllbrookeBenedict Allbrooke, Lily AsquithLily Asquith, Alessandro CerriAlessandro Cerri, C A Chavez Barajas, Antonella De SantoAntonella De Santo, Fabrizio SalvatoreFabrizio Salvatore, I Santoyo Castillo, K Suruliz, Mark SuttonMark Sutton, Iacopo Vivarelli, et al. The ATLAS CollaborationA search for a massive W' gauge boson decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark is performed with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at the LHC. The dataset was taken at a centre-of-mass energy of vs=8 TeV and corresponds to 20.3 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. This analysis is done in the hadronic decay mode of the top quark, where novel jet substructure techniques are used to identify jets from high-momentum top quarks. This allows for a search for high-mass W' bosons in the range 1.5–3.0 TeV. b-tagging is used to identify jets originating from b-quarks. The data are consistent with Standard Model background-only expectations, and upper limits at 95 % confidence level are set on the W'?tb cross section times branching ratio ranging from 0.16pb to 0.33pb for left-handed W' bosons, and ranging from 0.10pb to 0.21pb for W' bosons with purely right-handed couplings. Upper limits at 95 % confidence level are set on the W'-boson coupling to tb as a function of the W' mass using an effective field theory approach, which is independent of details of particular models predicting a W'boson.
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ATLAS; G0275; STFC-SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL; ST/I006048/1
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European Physical Journal C: Particles and FieldsISSN
1434-6044Publisher
EDP SciencesPublisher URL
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165Volume
75Department affiliated with
- Physics and Astronomy Publications
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- Experimental Particle Physics Research Group Publications
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2017-04-26First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2017-04-26Usage metrics
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