Search for heavy vector-like quarks coupling to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at 鈭歴=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 712:1-2 (2012) 22-39
Abstract:
This Letter presents a search for singly produced vector-like quarks, Q, coupling to light quarks, q. The search is sensitive to both charged current (CC) and neutral current (NC) processes, pp鈫扱q鈫扺qq' and pp鈫扱q鈫抁qq' with a leptonic decay of the vector gauge boson. In 1.04fb-1 of data taken in 2011 by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy 鈭歴=7 TeV, no evidence of such heavy vector-like quarks is observed above the expected Standard Model background. Limits on the heavy vector-like quark production cross section times branching ratio as a function of mass mQ are obtained. For a coupling 魏qQ=v/mQ, where v is the Higgs vacuum expectation value, 95% C.L. lower limits on the mass of a vector-like quark are set at 900 GeV and 760 GeV from CC and NC processes, respectively. 漏 2012 CERN.Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
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