Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson at √s = 13 TeV in the fully hadronic final state
Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.2021, no.12, 2021 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 2021 Issue: 12
- Publication Date: 2021
- Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep12(2021)106
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
- Keywords: Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Heavy quark production
- Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No
Abstract
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 fb−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. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]