Monotops at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-05-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We explore scenarios where top quarks may be produced singly in association with missing energy, a very distinctive signature, which in analogy with monojets, we dub monotops. We find that monotops can be produced in a variety of modes, typically characterized by baryon number violating or flavor changing neutral interactions. We build a simplified model that encompasses all the possible (tree-level) production mechanisms and study the LHC sensitiveness to a few representative scenarios by considering fully hadronic top decays. We find that constraints on such exotic models can already be set with one inverse femtobarn of integrated luminosity collected at seven TeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.6199,
title = {Monotops at the LHC},
author = {Jeremy Andrea and Benjamin Fuks and Fabio Maltoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.6199},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; version accepted by PRD