Search for heavy vector-like quarks coupling to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detectorShow others and affiliations
2012 (English)In: Physics Letters B, ISSN 0370-2693, E-ISSN 1873-2445, Vol. 712, no 1-2, p. 22-39Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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 -> Qq -> Wqq' and pp -> Qq -> Zqq' with a leptonic decay of the vector gauge boson. In 1.04 fb(-1) of data taken in 2011 by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy root s = 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 m(Q) are obtained. For a coupling K-qQ = v/m(Q), 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.
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2012. Vol. 712, no 1-2, p. 22-39
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Physical Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-182922DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.082ISI: 000304742500005OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-182922DiVA, id: diva2:561378
Note
ATLAS Collaboration, for complete list of authors see http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.082
2012-10-182012-10-182017-12-07Bibliographically approved