A search is performed for the production of a massive Wâ² boson decaying to a top and a bottom quark. The data analysed correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fbâ1 collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at (Formula presented.) TeV. The hadronic decay products of the top quark with high Lorentz boost from the Wâ² boson decay are detected as a single top flavoured jet. The use of jet substructure algorithms allows the top quark jet to be distinguished from standard model QCD background. Limits on the production cross section of a right-handed Wâ² boson are obtained, together with constraints on the left-handed and right-handed couplings of the Wâ² boson to quarks. The production of a right-handed Wâ² boson with a mass below 2.02 TeV decaying to a hadronic final state is excluded at 95% confidence level. This mass limit increases to 2.15 TeV when both hadronic and leptonic decays are considered, and is the most stringent lower mass limit to date in the tb decay mode.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Search for W0 → tb in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV
CAPPELLO, GIGI;CHIORBOLI, MASSIMILIANO;COSTA, Salvatore;GIORDANO, FERDINANDO;POTENZA, Renato Carlo;TRICOMI, Alessia Rita;TUVE', Cristina Natalina;
2016-01-01
Abstract
A search is performed for the production of a massive Wâ² boson decaying to a top and a bottom quark. The data analysed correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fbâ1 collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at (Formula presented.) TeV. The hadronic decay products of the top quark with high Lorentz boost from the Wâ² boson decay are detected as a single top flavoured jet. The use of jet substructure algorithms allows the top quark jet to be distinguished from standard model QCD background. Limits on the production cross section of a right-handed Wâ² boson are obtained, together with constraints on the left-handed and right-handed couplings of the Wâ² boson to quarks. The production of a right-handed Wâ² boson with a mass below 2.02 TeV decaying to a hadronic final state is excluded at 95% confidence level. This mass limit increases to 2.15 TeV when both hadronic and leptonic decays are considered, and is the most stringent lower mass limit to date in the tb decay mode.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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