TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a W boson at √s = 13 TeV in the fully hadronic final state
AU - Collaboration, CMS
AU - Blekman, Freya
AU - D'Hondt, Jorgen
AU - Bols, Emil Sørensen
AU - De Clercq, Jarne Theo
AU - Lowette, Steven
AU - Moortgat, Seth
AU - Morton, Alexander
AU - Müller, Denise
AU - Sahasransu, Abanti Ranadhir
AU - Tavernier, Stefaan
AU - Van Doninck, Walter
AU - Van Mulders, Petra
N1 - 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)
PY - 2021/12/16
Y1 - 2021/12/16
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - hep-ex
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121572316&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP12(2021)106
DO - 10.1007/JHEP12(2021)106
M3 - Article
VL - 2021
JO - The Journal of high energy physics
JF - The Journal of high energy physics
SN - 1126-6708
IS - 12
M1 - 106
ER -