Title
Search for heavy bottomlike quarks decaying to an electron or muon and jets in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV
Date Issued
06 April 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Aaltonen T.
Avarez González B.
Amerio S.
Amidei D.
Anastassov A.
Annovi A.
Antos J.
Apollinari G.
Appel J.A.
Apresyan A.
Arisawa T.
Artikov A.
Asaadi J.
Ashmanskas W.
Auerbach B.
Aurisano A.
Azfar F.
Badgett W.
Barbaro-Galtieri A.
Barnes V.E.
Barnett B.A.
Barria P.
Bartos P.
Bauce M.
Bauer G.
Bedeschi F.
Beecher D.
Behari S.
Bellettini G.
Bellinger J.
Benjamin D.
Beretvas A.
Bhatti A.
Binkley M.
Bisello D.
Bizjak I.
Bland K.R.
Blumenfeld B.
Bocci A.
Bodek A.
Bortoletto D.
Boudreau J.
Boveia A.
Brau B.
Brigliadori L.
Brisuda A.
Bromberg C.
Brucken E.
Bucciantonio M.
Budagov J.
Budd H.S.
Budd S.
Burkett K.
Busetto G.
Bussey P.
Buzatu A.
Calancha C.
Camarda S.
Campanelli M.
Campbell M.
Canelli F.
Canepa A.
Carls B.
Carlsmith D.
Carosi R.
Carrillo S.
Carron S.
Casal B.
Casarsa M.
Castro A.
Catastini P.
Cauz D.
Cavaliere V.
Cavalli-Sforza M.
Cerri A.
Cerrito L.
Chen Y.C.
Chertok M.
Chiarelli G.
Chlachidze G.
Chlebana F.
Cho K.
Chokheli D.
Chou J.P.
Chung W.H.
Chung Y.S.
Ciobanu C.I.
Ciocci M.A.
Clark A.
Compostella G.
Convery M.E.
Conway J.
Corbo M.
Cordelli M.
Cox C.A.
Cox D.J.
Crescioli F.
Cuenca Almenar C.
Cuevas J.
Culbertson R.
Abstract
We report the most sensitive direct search for pair production of fourth-generation bottomlike chiral quarks (b′) each decaying promptly to tW. We search for an excess of events with an electron or muon, at least five jets (one identified as due to a b or c quark), and an imbalance of transverse momentum by using data from pp̄ collisions collected by the CDFII detector at Fermilab with an integrated luminosity of 4.8fb-1. We observe events consistent with background expectation, calculate upper limits on the b′ pair-production cross section (σ bb ̄′ ∼30fb for mb′> 375GeV/c2), and exclude mb′<372GeV/c2 at 95% confidence level assuming a 100% branching ratio of b′ to tW. © 2011 American Physical Society.
Volume
106
Issue
14
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-79960648700
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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