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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 WbWb. 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)

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