Search for pair-produced vector-like top and bottom partners in events with large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for pair-produced vector-like quarks using events with exactly one lepton (e or mu), at least four jets including at least one b-tagged jet, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. Data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV, recorded by the ATLA...

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Main Authors: Aad, Georges (Author) , Baltes, Lisa Marie (Author) , Bartels, Falk (Author) , Castillo, Florencia Luciana (Author) , Czurylo, Marta (Author) , Rio, Fernando del (Author) , Dittmeier, Sebastian (Author) , Dunford, Monica (Author) , Franchino, Silvia (Author) , Junkermann, Thomas (Author) , Klassen, Martin (Author) , Mkrtchyan, Tigran (Author) , Ott, Philipp (Author) , Rassloff, Damir Fabrice (Author) , Rodriguez Bosca, Sergi (Author) , Sauer, Christof (Author) , Schöning, André (Author) , Schultz-Coulon, Hans-Christian (Author) , Sothilingam, Varsiha (Author) , Stamen, Rainer (Author) , Starovoitov, Pavel (Author) , Vigani, Luigi (Author) , Weber, Sebastian (Author) , Wessels, Martin (Author) , Zinßer, Joachim (Author)
Corporate Author: ATLAS Collaboration (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 10 August 2023
In: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Year: 2023, Volume: 83, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-31
ISSN:1434-6052
DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11790-7
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11790-7
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Summary:A search for pair-produced vector-like quarks using events with exactly one lepton (e or mu), at least four jets including at least one b-tagged jet, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. Data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC from 2015 to 2018 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb-1, are analysed. Vector-like partners T and B of the top and bottom quarks are considered, as is a vector-like X with charge +5/3, assuming their decay into a W, Z, or Higgs boson and a third-generation quark. No significant deviations from the Standard Model expectation are observed. Upper limits on the production cross-section of T and B quark pairs as a function of their mass are derived for various decay branching ratio scenarios. The strongest lower limits on the masses are 1.59 TeV assuming mass-degenerate vector-like quarks and branching ratios corresponding to the weak-isospin doublet model, and 1.47 TeV (1.46 TeV) for exclusive T → Zt(B/X → Wt) decays. In addition, lower limits on the T and B quark masses are derived for all possible branching ratios.
Item Description:*ATLAS Collaboration: G. Aad, L.M. Baltes, F. Bartels, F.L. Castillo, M.M. Czurylo, F. Del Rio, S.J. Dittmeier, M. Dunford, S. Franchino, T. Junkermann, M. Klassen, T. Mkrtchyan, P.S. Ott, D.F. Rassloff, S. Rodriguez Bosca, C. Sauer, A. Schoening, H-C. Schultz-Coulon, V. Sothilingam, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, L. Vigani, S.M. Weber, M. Wessels, J. Zinsser [und sehr viele weitere Personen]
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ISSN:1434-6052
DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11790-7