(CMS Collaboration) Chatrchyan, S.; Brigljević, Vuko; Đurić, Senka; Kadija, Krešo; Luetić, Jelena; Morović, Srećko (2011) Search for a Vectorlike Quark with Charge 2/3 in t+Z Events from pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 107 (27). 271802/1-271802/15. ISSN 0031-9007
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Abstract
A search for pair-produced heavy vectorlike charge-2/3 quarks, T, in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, is performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the flavor-changing-neutral-current decay of a T quark to a top quark and a Z boson are selected by requiring two leptons from the Z-boson decay, as well as an additional isolated charged lepton. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.14 fb(-1), the number of observed events is found to be consistent with the standard model background prediction. Assuming a branching fraction of 100% for the decay T -> tZ, a T quark with a mass less than 475 GeV/c(2) is excluded at the 95% confidence level.
Item Type: | Article | ||||||||
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | pp collisions | ||||||||
Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Division of Experimental Physics | ||||||||
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Depositing User: | Krešo Kadija | ||||||||
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2013 12:37 | ||||||||
URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/621 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.271802 |
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