ATLAS, Collaboration; Agustoni, Marco; Beck, Hans Peter; Cervelli, Alberto; Ereditato, Antonio; Haug, Sigve; Kabana, Sonja; Kruker, Tobias; Marti, Lukas; Meloni, Federico; Pretzl, Klaus-Peter; Schneider, Basil; Sciacca, Gianfranco; Stramaglia, Maria Elena; Stucci, Stefania; Weber, Michael (2015). Search for W ′ →tb→qqbb Decays in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. European physical journal. C - particles and fields, 75(4) EDP Sciences 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3372-2
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A search for a massive W ′ gauge boson decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark is performed with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at the LHC. The dataset was taken at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=8 TeV and corresponds to 20.3 fb⁻¹ of integrated luminosity. This analysis is done in the hadronic decay mode of the top quark, where novel jet substructure techniques are used to identify jets from high-momentum top quarks. This allows for a search for high-mass W ′ bosons in the range 1.5−3.0 TeV. b -tagging is used to identify jets originating from b -quarks. The data are consistent with Standard Model background-only expectations, and upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the W ′ →tb cross section times branching ratio ranging from 0.16 pb to 0.33 pb for left-handed W ′ bosons, and ranging from 0.10 pb to 0.21 pb for W ′ bosons with purely right-handed couplings. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the W ′-boson coupling to tb as a function of the W ′ mass using an effective field theory approach, which is independent of details of particular models predicting a W ′ boson.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Agustoni, Marco, Beck, Hans Peter, Cervelli, Alberto, Ereditato, Antonio, Haug, Sigve, Kruker, Tobias, Marti, Lukas, Meloni, Federico, Pretzl, Klaus-Peter, Schneider, Basil, Sciacca, Gianfranco, Stramaglia, Maria Elena, Stucci, Stefania, Weber, Michele |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
1434-6044 |
Publisher: |
EDP Sciences |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Annette Krebs-Wegenast |
Date Deposited: |
14 Sep 2016 13:33 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:58 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3372-2 |
ArXiv ID: |
arXiv:1408.0886 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt. |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.87695 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/87695 |
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