Search for down-type fourth generation quarks with the ATLAS detector in events with one lepton and hadronically decaying W bosons

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Publication date 2012
Journal Physical Review Letters
Article number 032001
Volume | Issue number 109 | 3
Number of pages 19
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract This Letter presents a search for pair production of heavy down-type quarks decaying via b′→Wt in the lepton+jets channel, as b′b¯′→W−tW+t¯→bb¯W+W−W+W−→l±νbb¯qq¯qq¯qq¯. In addition to requiring exactly one lepton, large missing transverse momentum, and at least six jets, the invariant mass of nearby jet pairs is used to identify high transverse momentum W bosons. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.04  fb−1 from pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector, a heavy down-type quark with mass less than 480 GeV can be excluded at the 95% confidence level.
Document type Article
Note ATLAS Collaboration
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.032001
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