Search for a vectorlike quark with charge 2/3 in t+Z events from pp collisions at √s=7TeV
Physical Review Letters, vol.107, no.27, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 107 Issue: 27
- Publication Date: 2011
- Doi Number: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.271802
- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No
Abstract
A search for pair-produced heavy vectorlike charge-2/3 quarks, T, in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, is performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the flavor-changing-neutral-current decay of a T quark to a top quark and a Z boson are selected by requiring two leptons from the Z-boson decay, as well as an additional isolated charged lepton. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.14fb -1, the number of observed events is found to be consistent with the standard model background prediction. Assuming a branching fraction of 100% for the decay T→tZ, a T quark with a mass less than 475GeV/c 2 is excluded at the 95% confidence level. © 2011 CERN.