Search for vector-boson resonances decaying to a top quark and bottom quark in the lepton plus jets final state in pp collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud; G Aad; B Abbott; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; DK Abhayasinghe; SH Abidi; OS Abouzeid; NL Abraham; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; S Adachi; L Adam; L Adamczyk; J Adelman; M Adersberger; A Adiguzel; T Adye; AA Affolder; Y Afik; C Agheorghiesei; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; F Ahmadov; G Aielli; S Akatsuka; TPA Åkesson; E Akilli; AV Akimov; GL Alberghi; J Albert; P Albicocco; MJ Alconada Verzini; S Alderweireldt; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; C Alexa; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; B Ali; G Alimonti; J Alison; SP Alkire; C Allaire; BMM Allbrooke; BW Allen; PP Allport; A Aloisio; A Alonso; F Alonso; C Alpigiani; AA Alshehri; MI Alstaty; B Alvarez Gonzalez; D Álvarez Piqueras; MG Alviggi; BT Amadio; Y Amaral Coutinho; A Ambler; L Ambroz; C Amelung; D Amidei; SP Amor Dos Santos; S Amoroso; CS Amrouche; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; JK Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; CR Anelli; S Angelidakis; I Angelozzi; A Angerami; AV Anisenkov; A Annovi; C Antel; MT Anthony; M Antonelli; DJA Antrim; F Anulli; M Aoki; JA Aparisi Pozo; L Aperio Bella; G Arabidze; JP Araque; V Araujo Ferraz; R Araujo Pereira; ATH Arce; RE Ardell; FA Arduh; JF Arguin; S Argyropoulos; AJ Armbruster; LJ Armitage

Journal article

Search for vector-boson resonances decaying to a top quark and bottom quark in the lepton plus jets final state in pp collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, O Abdinov, B Abeloos, DK Abhayasinghe, SH Abidi, OS Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, S Adachi, L Adam, L Adamczyk, J Adelman, M Adersberger, A Adiguzel, T Adye Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.11.032

Abstract

A search for new charged massive gauge bosons, W′, is performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Data were collected in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. This analysis searches for W′ bosons in the W′→tb¯ decay channel in final states with an electron or muon plus jets. The search covers resonance masses between 0.5 and 5.0 TeV and considers right-handed W′ bosons. No significant deviation from the Standard Model (SM) expectation is observed and upper limits are set on the W′→tb¯ cross section times branching ratio and the W′ boson effective couplings as a function of the W′ boson mass. For right-handed..

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Elisabetta Barberio Author

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Phillip Urquijo Author

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Awarded by Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, Canarie, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Region Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref.[92].