Abstract
A search for the pair production of heavy vectorlike partners T and B of the top and bottom quarks has been performed by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC using proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. The data sample was collected in 2016 and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb-1. Final states studied for TT production include those where one of the T quarks decays via T → tZ and the other via T → bW, tZ, or tH, where H is a Higgs boson. For the BB case, final states include those where one of the B quarks decays via B → bZ and the other B → tW, bZ, or bH. Events with two oppositely charged electrons or muons, consistent with coming from the decay of a Z boson, and jets are investigated. The number of observed events is consistent with standard model background estimations. Lower limits at 95% confidence level are placed on the masses of the T and B quarks for a range of branching fractions. Assuming 100% branching fractions for T → tZ, and B → bZ, T and B quark mass values below 1280 and 1130 GeV, respectively, are excluded. 7copy; CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration 2019.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 364 |
| Journal | European Physical Journal C |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
trial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2014/13/B/ST2/02543, 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, and 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, Sonata-bis 2012/07 /E/ST2/01406; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Inves-tigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia María de Maeztu, grant MDM-2015-0509 and the Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias; the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (USA). We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of theWorldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); NKFIA (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLPFAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR, and NRC KI (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI, and FEDER (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract No. 675440 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation ? la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie doorWetenschap en Technologie (IWTBelgium); the F.R.S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the "Excellence of Science - EOS" - be.h project n. 30820817; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Lend?let ("Momentum") Program and the J?nos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program ?NKP, the NKFIA research grants 123842, 123959, 124845, 124850 and 125105 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2014/13/B/ST2/02543, 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, and 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, Sonata-bis 2012/07 /E/ST2/01406; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigaci?n Cient?fica y T?cnica de Excelencia Mar?a de Maeztu, grant MDM-2015-0509 and the Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias; the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (USA). Acknowledgements We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); NKFIA (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF The dotted-dashed line displays the theoretical cross section. The inner and outer bands show the one and two standard deviation uncertainties in the expected limits, respectively (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR, and NRC KI (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI, and FEDER (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract No. 675440 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the F.R.S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the “Excellence of Science - EOS” - be.h project n. 30820817; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Lendület (“Momentum”) Program and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program ÚNKP, the NKFIA research grants 123842, 123959, 124845, 124850 and 125105 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Indus-
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| CPAN | |
| Chulalongkorn Academic | |
| Council of Science and Indus | |
| ERC IUT | |
| EU-ESF | |
| European Research Council and Horizon 2020 | |
| Excellence of Science | 30820817 |
| F.R.S.-FNRS | |
| FRIA-Belgium | |
| Fonds pour la Formation ? | |
| Greek NSRF | |
| IWT-Belgium | |
| IWTBelgium | |
| LNS | |
| MESTD | Serbia |
| MON | |
| MSES | |
| MSHE | NSC |
| MoER | |
| National Priorities Research Program | |
| National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia | |
| New National Excellence Program ? | |
| PCTI | |
| Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Inves-tigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia María de Maeztu | MDM-2015-0509 |
| Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigaci?n Cient?fica y T?cnica de Excelencia Mar?a de Maeztu | |
| Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for | |
| STAR | |
| Swiss Funding Agencies | |
| TUBITAK | |
| UASLP-FAI | |
| UASLPFAI | |
| National Science Foundation | 1913886 |
| U.S. Department of Energy | |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | |
| Welch Foundation | C-1845 |
| Hispanics in Philanthropy | |
| CS Fund | Croatia |
| National Sleep Foundation | |
| Human Growth Foundation | |
| Maryland Ornithological Society | |
| California Department of Fish and Game | |
| Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung | |
| Fuel Cell Technologies Program | |
| University of Minnesota | |
| Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS) | |
| California Earthquake Authority | |
| Qatar National Research Fund | |
| Center for African Studies | |
| Secretaría de Educación Pública | |
| Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu | |
| Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | |
| Weston Havens Foundation | |
| Santa Fe Institute | |
| Louisiana Academy of Sciences | |
| Rochester Academy of Science | |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology | Taipei |
| CERN | |
| Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics | |
| Cosmetic Surgery Foundation | |
| Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology | |
| Canadian Mathematical Society | |
| Science and Technology Facilities Council | GRIDPP, ST/N000242/1 |
| European Commission | |
| European Research Council | |
| National Research Foundation | |
| Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology | |
| Ministry of Education - Singapore | |
| Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India | |
| Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland | |
| Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft | |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
| Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo | |
| National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
| Research Promotion Foundation | Cyprus |
| Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy | |
| National Science Council | |
| Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej | |
| Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
| Russian Foundation for Basic Research | |
| Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior | |
| Academy of Finland | |
| Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung | |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Austrian Science Fund | |
| Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS | |
| Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| Belgian Federal Science Policy Office | |
| Chulalongkorn University | |
| Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras | |
| Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
| Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie | |
| Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture | |
| Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología | |
| Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | |
| General Secretariat for Research and Technology | Hungary |
| Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment | |
| Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | |
| Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning | |
| Korea Research Council for Industrial Science and Technology | |
| National Research Foundation of Korea | |
| Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | |
| Magyar Tudományos Akadémia | |
| Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | |
| Ministry of Science ICT and Future Planning | |
| A.G. Leventis Foundation | |
| National Science and Technology Development Agency | Thailand |
| Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul | |
| Narodowe Centrum Nauki | 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, 2012/07 /E/ST2/01406, 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 |
| Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación | |
| Universiti Malaya | |
| Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego | |
| Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
| Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment | |
| Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan | |
| National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | |
| Ministry of Education and Science | |
| Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences | |
| Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla | |
| Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives | |
| Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación | |
| Horizon 2020 | 675440 |
| European Regional Development Fund | |
| State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM | |
| Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional | |
| Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission | Pakistan |
| State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine | Ukraine |
| Ministerio de Educación y Cultura | |
| Ministry of Science,Technology and Research | |
| Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie | |
| Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules | |
| Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovaciós Alap | 124845, 123842, 125105, 124850, 123959 |
| Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | |
| National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" | |
| Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Paraguay | |
| la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture |