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Limits on Four-Top Production from the ATLAS Same-sign Top-quark Search

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-10-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We repurpose the recent ATLAS search for same-sign top quarks in data with 1.0 fb1^{-1} in the context of a search for production of four top quarks. Using the null results of that search, we place limits on the four-top-quark production cross section of about 1 pb. These limits are larger than the expected Standard Model rate for four-top-quark production, but are already strong enough to place interesting constraints on models which enhance that rate. We interpret these results in the context of models in which the right-handed top quark is composite and find limits on the compositeness scale of about 700 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.1203.5862,
  title  = {Limits on Four-Top Production from the ATLAS Same-sign Top-quark Search},
  author = {Ning Zhou and Daniel Whiteson and Tim M. P. Tait},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5862},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures