Search for Pair Production of Vector-Like Quarks in Leptonic Final States in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics 2023
Kārlis Dreimanis, Guntis Pikurs, Markus Seidel, Viesturs Veckalns, CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for vector-like T and B quark-antiquark pairs produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Data were collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016–2018, with an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1−1. Events are separated into single-lepton, same-sign charge dilepton, and multi-lepton channels. In the analysis of the single-lepton channel a multilayer neural network and jet identification techniques are employed to select signal events, while the same-sign dilepton and multilepton channels rely on the high-energy signature of the signal to distinguish it from standard model backgrounds. The data are consistent with standard model background predictions, and the production of vector-like quark pairs is excluded at 95% confidence level for T quark masses up to 1.54 TeV and B quark masses up to 1.56 TeV, depending on the branching fractions assumed, with maximal sensitivity to decay modes that include multiple top quarks. The limits obtained in this search are the strongest limits to date for TT‾TT production, excluding masses below 1.48 TeV for all decays to third generation quarks, and are the strongest limits to date for BB‾BB production with B quark decays to tW.


Atslēgas vārdi
eyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Heavy Quark Produc- tion
DOI
10.1007/JHEP07(2023)020
Hipersaite
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)020

The CMS Collaboration, A.Tumasyan, K.Dreimanis, G.Pikurs, M.Seidel, V.Veckalns ... [et al.]. Search for Pair Production of Vector-Like Quarks in Leptonic Final States in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, Vol. 2023, No. 7, Article number 20. e-ISSN 1029-8479. Available from: doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2023)020

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English (en)
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