@misc{10481/95891,
year = {2017},
month = {10},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/95891},
abstract = {A search is presented for the pair production of heavy vector-like T quarks, primarily targeting the T quark decays to a W boson and a b-quark. The search is based on 36.1 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Data are analysed in the lepton-plus-jets final state, including at least one b-tagged jet and a large-radius jet identified as originating from the hadronic decay of a high-momentum W boson. No significant deviation from the Standard Model expectation is observed in the reconstructed T mass distribution. The observed 95% confidence level lower limit on the T mass are 1350 GeV assuming 100% branching ratio to Wb. In the SU(2) singlet scenario, the lower mass limit is 1170 GeV. This search is also sensitive to a heavy vector-like B quark decaying to Wt and other final states. The results are thus reinterpreted to provide a 95% confidence level lower limit on the B quark mass at 1250 GeV assuming 100% branching ratio to Wt; in the SU(2) singlet scenario, the limit is 1080 GeV. Mass limits on both T and B production are also set as a function of the decay branching ratios. The 100% branching ratio limits are found to be applicable to heavy vector-like Y and X production that decay to Wb and Wt, respectively.},
organization = {CERN},
organization = {MINECO},
organization = {EPLANET},
organization = {ERC},
organization = {ERDF},
organization = {FP7},
organization = {Horizon 2020},
organization = {Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions},
organization = {CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya},
organization = {Generalitat Valenciana},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
keywords = {Exotics},
keywords = {Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)},
title = {Search for pair production of heavy vector-like quarks decaying to high-pT W bosons and b quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at √s = 13TeV with the ATLAS detector},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP10(2017)141},
author = {Aaboud, M. and Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio and Atlas Collaboration, /},
}