Search for decaying to a vector-like quark and a top or bottom quark in the all-jets final state
Collaboration
24 pages
- Published: 2021
Report number:
- CMS-PAS-B2G-20-002,
- CMS-PAS-B2G-20-002
Experiments:
- CERN-LHC-CMS,
- CERN-LHC-CMS
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Abstract: (CDS)
A search for a heavy boson resonance decaying to one B or T vector-like quark and a top or bottom quark, respectively, is presented. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data collected from the year 2016 to 2018 with the CMS detector at the LHC. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 137 at a center-of-mass energy of . Both decay channels result in a final state with a top quark, a Higgs or Z boson, and a b quark, each produced with significant energy. The all-hadronic decays of both the Higgs boson and the top quark are considered. The final-state jets, some of which correspond to merged decay products of a boosted top quark and a Higgs or Z boson, are selected using jet substructure techniques, which help to suppress standard model backgrounds. A boson signal would appear as a narrow peak in the invariant mass distribution of these three jets. No significant deviation in data with respect to the standard model background predictions is observed. The confidence level upper limits on the cross section for boson production and the subsequent decay into a top quark, Higgs or Z boson, and b quark are set as a function of the boson mass, for several vector-like quark mass hypotheses. We exclude a boson in this channel with a mass below 3.2 given benchmark model assumptions, and additionally present limits based on generalizations of these assumptions. This is the first search for a boson in this channel using the full 2016 to 2018 CMS data.Note:
- Preliminary results •
- Preliminary results
- Monte-Carlo
- p p: colliding beams
- quark: vector particle
- quark: mass
- quark: decay modes
- W': mass
- W': decay modes
- top: boosted particle
- boson: production
- boson: resonance
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