Reconstructing singly produced top partners in decays to $\mathbf{Wb}$
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-10-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Fermionic top partners are a feature of many models of physics beyond the Standard Model. We propose a search strategy for single production of top partners focussing specifically on the dominant decay to . The enormous background can be reduced by requiring a forward jet and exploiting jet substructure to suppress top-pair production. This simple strategy is shown to produce a sensitive search for single top-partner production, in the context of composite Higgs models, that has competitive mass reach with existing experimental searches for top-partner-pair production at the 8TeV LHC.
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@article{arxiv.1403.7490,
title = {Reconstructing singly produced top partners in decays to $\mathbf{Wb}$},
author = {Nicolas Gutierrez Ortiz and James Ferrando and Deepak Kar and Michael Spannowsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.7490},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures (v2 updated physics content to match version accepted by PRD)