Searches for W′ bosons decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

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Jun 13, 2017

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Abstract: (Springer)
Searches are presented for heavy gauge bosons decaying into a top and a bottom quark in data collected by the CMS experiment at s=13 \sqrt{s}=13 TeV that correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 and 2.6 fb1^{−1} in the leptonic and hadronic analyses, respectively. Two final states are analyzed, one containing a single electron, or muon, and missing transverse momentum, and the other containing multiple jets and no electrons or muons. No evidence is found for a right-handed W′ boson (W′R_{R}) and the combined analyses exclude at 95% confidence level W′R_{R} with masses below 2.4 TeV if MWRMνR {M}_{\mathrm{W}{\prime}_{\mathrm{R}}}\gg {M}_{\nu_{\mathrm{R}}} (mass of the right-handed neutrino), and below 2.6 TeV if MWR<MνR {M}_{\mathrm{W}{\prime}_{\mathrm{R}}}<{M}_{\nu_{\mathrm{R}}} . The results provide the most stringent limits for right-handed W′ bosons in the top and bottom quark decay channel.
Note:
  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • p p: colliding beams
  • W': hadronic decay
  • W': right-handed
  • W': mass: lower limit
  • neutrino: right-handed: mass
  • quark: decay
  • gauge boson: heavy
  • gauge boson: hadronic decay