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T1 - Search for heavy particles decaying into top-quark pairs using lepton-plus-jets events in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Barton, Adam Edward
AU - Beattie, Michael
AU - Bertram, Iain Alexander
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin Eamonn
AU - Love, Peter Allan
AU - Muenstermann, Daniel Matthias Alfred
AU - Parker, Adam Jackson
AU - Skinner, Malcolm
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Tee, Amy
AU - Walder, James William
AU - Wharton, Andrew Mark
AU - Whitmore, Ben
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
AU - Ferrando, James
PY - 2018/7/9
Y1 - 2018/7/9
N2 - A search for new heavy particles that decay into top-quark pairs is performed using data collected from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The integrated luminosity of the data sample is 36.1 fb−1. Events consistent with top-quark pair production are selected by requiring a single isolated charged lepton, missing transverse momentum and jet activity compatible with a hadronic top-quark decay. Jets identified as likely to contain b-hadrons are required to reduce the background from other Standard Model processes. The invariant mass spectrum of the candidate top-quark pairs is examined for local excesses above the background expectation. No significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions are found. Exclusion limits are set on the production cross-section times branching ratio for hypothetical Z′ bosons, Kaluza–Kein gluons and Kaluza–Klein gravitons that decay into top-quark pairs.
AB - A search for new heavy particles that decay into top-quark pairs is performed using data collected from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The integrated luminosity of the data sample is 36.1 fb−1. Events consistent with top-quark pair production are selected by requiring a single isolated charged lepton, missing transverse momentum and jet activity compatible with a hadronic top-quark decay. Jets identified as likely to contain b-hadrons are required to reduce the background from other Standard Model processes. The invariant mass spectrum of the candidate top-quark pairs is examined for local excesses above the background expectation. No significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions are found. Exclusion limits are set on the production cross-section times branching ratio for hypothetical Z′ bosons, Kaluza–Kein gluons and Kaluza–Klein gravitons that decay into top-quark pairs.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5995-6
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5995-6
M3 - Journal article
VL - 78
JO - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
SN - 1434-6044
IS - 7
M1 - 565
ER -