Monotop phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-02-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We investigate new physics scenarios where systems comprised of a single top quark accompanied by missing transverse energy, dubbed monotops, can be produced at the LHC. Following a simplified model approach, we describe all possible monotop production modes via an effective theory and estimate the sensitivity of the LHC, assuming 20 fb of collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, to the observation of a monotop state. Considering both leptonic and hadronic top quark decays, we show that large fractions of the parameter space are reachable and that new physics particles with masses ranging up to 1.5 TeV can leave hints within the 2012 LHC dataset, assuming moderate new physics coupling strengths.
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@article{arxiv.1311.6478,
title = {Monotop phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider},
author = {Jean-Laurent Agram and Jeremy Andrea and Michael Buttignol and Eric Conte and Benjamin Fuks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6478},
year = {2014}
}
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17 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables