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

CMS Collaboration, Freya Blekman, Jorgen D'Hondt, Emil Sørensen Bols, Jarne Theo De Clercq, Steven Lowette, Seth Moortgat, Alexander Morton, Denise Müller, Abanti Ranadhir Sahasransu, Stefaan Tavernier, Walter Van Doninck, Petra Van Mulders

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number106
Number of pages46
JournalJHEP
Volume2021
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Dec 2021

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Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/B2G-19-003 (CMS Public Pages)

Keywords

  • hep-ex

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