Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson at s \sqrt{s} = 13 TeV in the fully hadronic final state

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Apr 26, 2021

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Abstract: (Springer)
A search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson in the fully hadronic final state is presented. The analysis is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb1^{−1} recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is focused on heavy resonances, where the decay products of each top quark or W boson are expected to be reconstructed as a single, large-radius jet with a distinct substructure. The production of an excited bottom quark, b^{*}, is used as a benchmark when setting limits on the cross section for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson. The hypotheses of b^{*} quarks with left-handed, right-handed, and vector-like chiralities are excluded at 95% confidence level for masses below 2.6, 2.8, and 3.1 TeV, respectively. These are the most stringent limits on the b^{*} quark mass to date, extending the previous best limits by almost a factor of two.[graphic not available: see fulltext]
Note:
  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • Heavy quark production
  • talk: Prague 2020/07/30
  • p p: colliding beams
  • resonance: production
  • resonance: heavy
  • resonance: hadronic decay
  • quark: production
  • final state: hadronic