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Hadronic $b^\prime$ search at the LHC with top and W taggers

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-19 v2

Abstract

We study the sensitivity of a down type quark bb^{\prime} via process ppbbˉtWtˉW+pp\rightarrow b^{\prime}\bar{b^{\prime}} \rightarrow tW^-\bar{t}W^+ using jet substructure methods at the LHC with the collision energy s=14\sqrt{s}=14 TeV. We consider the case that the bb^\prime is heavy (say from 800 GeV to 1500 GeV) and concentrate on the feasibility of the full hadronic mode. Both top tagger (the HEP top tagger) and W tagger (the CMS W-tagging) are used to reconstruct all objects in the final states. In order to suppress huge SM background events and take into account various cases with different number of boosted objects, we propose a comprehensive reconstruction procedure so as to extract the most crucial observables of the signal events. When bb^\prime mass is 1 TeV, it is found that with a 200 fb1^{-1} dataset, the LHC may be able to detect the bb^\prime with a significance up to 1010 or better. With a 3000 fb1fb^{-1} dataset, the LHC may be able to probe the bb^\prime with a mass around up to 2 TeV, only by using the hadronic mode.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1405.2514,
  title  = {Hadronic $b^\prime$ search at the LHC with top and W taggers},
  author = {Shuo Yang and Ji Jiang and Qi-Shu Yan and Xiaoran Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2514},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

23 pages,8 figures, 4 tables. v2: discussions and references added, typos corrected, Accepted by JHEP