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Search for pair production of a new heavy quark that decays into a W boson and a light quark in pp collisions at s√=8  TeV with the ATLAS detector

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In: Physical Review D, Vol. 92, No. 11, 112007, 22.12.2015.

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The ATLAS collaboration. Search for pair production of a new heavy quark that decays into a W boson and a light quark in pp collisions at s√=8  TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D. 2015 Dec 22;92(11):112007. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.112007

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title = "Search for pair production of a new heavy quark that decays into a W boson and a light quark in pp collisions at s√=8  TeV with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "A search is presented for pair production of a new heavy quark (Q) that decays into a W boson and a light quark (q) in the final state where one W boson decays leptonically (to an electron or muon plus a neutrino) and the other W boson decays hadronically. The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 20.3  fb−1 of pp collisions at s√=8  TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No evidence of QQ¯ production is observed. New chiral quarks with masses below 690 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level, assuming BR(Q→Wq)=1. Results are also interpreted in the context of vectorlike quark models, resulting in the limits on the mass of a vectorlike quark in the two-dimensional plane of BR(Q→Wq) versus BR(Q→Hq).",
author = "Adam Barton and Michael Beattie and Guennadi Borissov and Bouhova-Thacker, {Evelina Vassileva} and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Grimm, {Kathryn Ann Tschann} and Henderson, {Robert Charles William} and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Long, {Robin Eamonn} and Love, {Peter Allan} and Harvey Maddocks and Malcolm Skinner and Maria Smizanska and Walder, {James William} and Andy Wharton and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
year = "2015",
month = dec,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.92.112007",
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journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "1550-7998",
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T1 - Search for pair production of a new heavy quark that decays into a W boson and a light quark in pp collisions at s√=8  TeV with the ATLAS detector

AU - Barton, Adam

AU - Beattie, Michael

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva

AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann

AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

AU - Love, Peter Allan

AU - Maddocks, Harvey

AU - Skinner, Malcolm

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Walder, James William

AU - Wharton, Andy

AU - The ATLAS collaboration

PY - 2015/12/22

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N2 - A search is presented for pair production of a new heavy quark (Q) that decays into a W boson and a light quark (q) in the final state where one W boson decays leptonically (to an electron or muon plus a neutrino) and the other W boson decays hadronically. The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 20.3  fb−1 of pp collisions at s√=8  TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No evidence of QQ¯ production is observed. New chiral quarks with masses below 690 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level, assuming BR(Q→Wq)=1. Results are also interpreted in the context of vectorlike quark models, resulting in the limits on the mass of a vectorlike quark in the two-dimensional plane of BR(Q→Wq) versus BR(Q→Hq).

AB - A search is presented for pair production of a new heavy quark (Q) that decays into a W boson and a light quark (q) in the final state where one W boson decays leptonically (to an electron or muon plus a neutrino) and the other W boson decays hadronically. The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 20.3  fb−1 of pp collisions at s√=8  TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No evidence of QQ¯ production is observed. New chiral quarks with masses below 690 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level, assuming BR(Q→Wq)=1. Results are also interpreted in the context of vectorlike quark models, resulting in the limits on the mass of a vectorlike quark in the two-dimensional plane of BR(Q→Wq) versus BR(Q→Hq).

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