Search for pair production of heavy vectorlike quarks decaying into hadronic final states in pp collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Abstract

A search is presented for the pair production of heavy vectorlike quarks, TT or BB, that decay into final states with jets and no reconstructed leptons. Jets in the final state are classified using a deep neural network as arising from hadronically decaying W/Z bosons, Higgs bosons, top quarks, or background. The analysis uses data from the ATLAS experiment corresponding to 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV delivered by the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016. No significant deviation from the Standard Model expectation is observed. Results are interpreted assuming the vectorlike quarks decay into a Standard Model boson and a third-generation-quark, T→Wb,Ht,Zt or B→Wt,Hb,Zb, for a variety of branching ratios. At 95% confidence level, the observed (expected) lower limit on the vectorlike B-quark mass for a weak-isospin doublet (B, Y) is 950 (890) GeV, and the lower limits on the masses for the pure decays B→Hb and T→Ht, where these results are strongest, are 1010 (970) GeV and 1010 (1010) GeV, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Article number092005
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume98
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2018

Funding

FundersFunder number
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Australian Research Council
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
CEA-DRF
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Région Auvergne
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Israel Science Foundation
Wallenberg Foundation
Leverhulme Trust
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
Generalitat de Catalunya
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft
Austrian Science Fund
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
MSMT
MSSR
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Czech Republic
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Canarie
Ontario Innovation Trust
MIZŠ
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Neurosurgical Research Foundation
MESTD
U.S. Department of Energy
EU-ESF
RGC
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Biomedical Research Foundation
MES of Russia
National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
Institutul de Fizică Atomică
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Canada Council for the Arts
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
VSC CR
Glycemic Index Foundation
CRC Health Group
Compute Canada
MNE
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
Royal Society
Minerva Foundation
European Research Council
European Regional Development Fund
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
IRFU
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Fondation Partager le Savoir
National Research Council Canada
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
Horizon 2020
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Science Foundation1812377, 1624739
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/J005533/1, ST/L006162/1, ST/K001310/1, ST/N000447/1, ST/J004804/1, ST/H001158/1, ST/N000307/1, ST/M000753/1, ST/N000234/1, ST/L003449/1, GRIDPP, ST/N000420/1
Not addedunidentified
Seventh Framework Programme246806
DNSRCIN2P3-CNRS

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