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T1 - Search for Pair Production of a New b′ Quark that Decays into a Z Boson and a Bottom Quark with the ATLAS Detector
AU - Barton, Adam
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva
AU - Brodbeck, Timothy
AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre
AU - Davidson, Ruth
AU - de Mora, Lee
AU - Dearnaley, William
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Henderson, Robert
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin
AU - Love, Peter
AU - Ratoff, Peter
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
N1 - Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. © 2012 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
PY - 2012/8/16
Y1 - 2012/8/16
N2 - A search is reported for the pair production of a new quark b′ with at least one b′ decaying to a Z boson and a bottom quark. The data, corresponding to 2.0 fb−1 of integrated luminosity, were collected from pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Using events with a b-tagged jet and a Z boson reconstructed from opposite-charge electrons, the mass distribution of large transverse momentum b′ candidates is tested for an enhancement. No evidence for a b′ signal is detected in the observed mass distribution, resulting in the exclusion at a 95% confidence level of b′ quarks with masses mb′<400 GeV that decay entirely via b′→Z+b. In the case of a vectorlike singlet b′ mixing solely with the third standard model generation, masses mb′<358 GeV are excluded.
AB - A search is reported for the pair production of a new quark b′ with at least one b′ decaying to a Z boson and a bottom quark. The data, corresponding to 2.0 fb−1 of integrated luminosity, were collected from pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Using events with a b-tagged jet and a Z boson reconstructed from opposite-charge electrons, the mass distribution of large transverse momentum b′ candidates is tested for an enhancement. No evidence for a b′ signal is detected in the observed mass distribution, resulting in the exclusion at a 95% confidence level of b′ quarks with masses mb′<400 GeV that decay entirely via b′→Z+b. In the case of a vectorlike singlet b′ mixing solely with the third standard model generation, masses mb′<358 GeV are excluded.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071801
M3 - Journal article
VL - 109
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 7
M1 - 071801
ER -