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Search for the production of an excited bottom quark decaying to tW in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV

par Khachatryan, Vardan;Barria, Patrizia ;Caillol, Cécile ;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Delannoy, Hugo ;Fasanella, Giuseppe ;Favart, Laurent ;Gay, Arnaud ;Grebenyuk, Anastasia ;Karapostoli, Georgia ;Lenzi, Thomas ;Maerschalk, Thierry ;Marinov, Audrey ;Pernie, Luca ;Randle-Conde, Aidan Sean ;Reis, Thomas ;Seva, Tomislav ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Yonamine, Ryo ;Zenoni, Florian ;Zhang, Fengwangdong ; [et al.]
Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2016, 1, 166
Publication Publié, 2016

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A search is presented for a singly produced excited bottom quark (b*) decaying to a top quark and a W boson in the all-hadronic, lepton+jets, and dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at s=8(Formula Presented.)TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1 are used. No significant excess of events is observed with respect to standard model expectations. We set limits at 95% confidence on the product of the b* quark production cross section and its branching fraction to tW. The cross section limits are interpreted for scenarios including left-handed, right-handed, and vector-like couplings of the b* quark and are presented in the two-dimensional coupling plane based on the production and decay coupling constants. The masses of the left-handed, right-handed, and vector-like b* quark states are excluded at 95% confidence below 1390, 1430, and 1530 GeV, respectively, for benchmark couplings. This analysis gives the most stringent limits on the mass of the b∗ quark to date.