Publication
Title
Search for a vectorlike quark with charge 2/3 in t+Z events from pp collisions at = 7 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
A search for pair-produced heavy vectorlike charge-2/3 quarks, T, in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, is performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the flavor-changing-neutral-current decay of a T quark to a top quark and a Z boson are selected by requiring two leptons from the Z-boson decay, as well as an additional isolated charged lepton. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.14  fb-1, the number of observed events is found to be consistent with the standard model background prediction. Assuming a branching fraction of 100% for the decay T→tZ, a T quark with a mass less than 475  GeV/c2 is excluded at the 95% confidence level.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physical review letters. - New York, N.Y., 1958, currens
Publication
New York, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2011
ISSN
0031-9007 [print]
1079-7114 [online]
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.107.271802
10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.054010
Volume/pages
107 :27 (2011) , p. 1-15
Article Reference
271802
ISI
000298611000010
Medium
E-only publicatie
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External links
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