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Search for tt¯ resonances in the lepton plus jets final state with ATLAS using 4.7fb1 of pp collisions at s=7TeV

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 88, 012004 – Published 23 July 2013

Abstract

A search for new particles that decay into top quark pairs (tt¯) is performed with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 4.7fb1 of proton–proton (pp) collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy s=7TeV. In the tt¯WbWb decay, the lepton plus jets final state is used, where one W boson decays leptonically and the other hadronically. The tt¯ system is reconstructed using both small-radius and large-radius jets, the latter being supplemented by a jet substructure analysis. A search for local excesses in the number of data events compared to the Standard Model expectation in the tt¯ invariant mass spectrum is performed. No evidence for a tt¯ resonance is found and 95% credibility-level limits on the production rate are determined for massive states predicted in two benchmark models. The upper limits on the cross section times branching ratio of a narrow Z resonance range from 5.1 pb for a boson mass of 0.5 TeV to 0.03 pb for a mass of 3 TeV. A narrow leptophobic topcolor Z resonance with a mass below 1.74 TeV is excluded. Limits are also derived for a broad color-octet resonance with Γ/m=15.3%. A Kaluza–Klein excitation of the gluon in a Randall–Sundrum model is excluded for masses below 2.07 TeV.

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  • Received 13 May 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.012004

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Vol. 88, Iss. 1 — 1 July 2013

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