Search for single production of a heavy vector-like T quark decaying to a Higgs boson and a top quark with a lepton and jets in the final state


Khachatryan V., Sirunyan A. M., Tumasyan A., Adam W., Asilar E., Bergauer T., ...More

PHYSICS LETTERS B, vol.771, pp.80-105, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 771
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.05.019
  • Journal Name: PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.80-105
  • Keywords: CMS, B2G, VLQ, Tprime, Higgs tagging, Physics, ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY-BREAKING
  • Çukurova University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

A search for single production of vector-like top quark partners (T) decaying into a Higgs boson and atop quark is performed using data from pp collisions at acentre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb(-1). The top quark decay includes an electron or a muon while the Higgs boson decays into a pair of b quarks. No significant excess over standard model backgrounds is observed. Exclusion limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching fraction are derived in the T quark mass range 700 to 1800 GeV. For a mass of 1000 GeV, values of the product of the production cross section and the branching fraction greater than 0.8 and 0.7 pb are excluded at 95% confidence level, assuming left-and right-handed coupling of the T quark to standard model particles, respectively. This is the first analysis setting exclusion limits on the cross section of singly produced vector-like T quarks at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. (C) 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.