Search for top quark partners with charge 5/3 in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Abstract

A search for the production of heavy partners of the top quark with charge 5/3 ((X_{5/3})) decaying into a top quark and a W boson is performed with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb⁻¹, collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. Final states with either a pair of same-sign leptons or a single lepton, along with jets, are considered. No significant excess is observed in the data above the expected standard model background contribution and an (X_{5/3}) quark with right-handed (left-handed) couplings is excluded at 95% confidence level for masses below 1020 (990) GeV. These are the first limits based on a combination of the same-sign dilepton and the single-lepton final states, as well as the most stringent limits on the (X_{5/3}) mass to date.

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Keywords
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Beyond Standard Model, Exotics, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Top physics
Citation
Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., Brandstetter, J., Brondolin, E., Dragicevic, M., Erö, J., Flechl, M., Friedl, M., Frühwirth, R., Ghete, V. M., Hartl, C., Hörmann, N., Hrubec, J., Jeitler, M., König, A., … Woods, N. (2017). Search for top quark partners with charge 5/3 in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV. In Journal of High Energy Physics (Vol. 2017, Issue 8). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08(2017)073