Search for W\mathrm{W^\prime} decaying to a vector-like quark and a top or bottom quark in the all-jets final state

Collaboration
2021
24 pages
  • Published: 2021
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-B2G-20-002,
  • CMS-PAS-B2G-20-002
Experiments:

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Abstract: (CDS)
A search for a heavy W\mathrm{W^\prime} 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 fb1~\mathrm{fb^{-1}} at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV13~\mathrm{TeV}. 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 W\mathrm{W^\prime} 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 95%95\% confidence level upper limits on the cross section for W\mathrm{W^\prime} boson production and the subsequent decay into a top quark, Higgs or Z boson, and b quark are set as a function of the W\mathrm{W^\prime} boson mass, for several vector-like quark mass hypotheses. We exclude a W\mathrm{W^\prime} boson in this channel with a mass below 3.2 TeV~\mathrm{TeV} given benchmark model assumptions, and additionally present limits based on generalizations of these assumptions. This is the first search for a W\mathrm{W^\prime} 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