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A search is presented for pair production of heavy vector-like T and B quarks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$, collected with the CMS detector at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-09-06 CMS Collaboration

The presence of a new decay mode relaxes the current mass exclusion limits on vectorlike quarks considerably. We consider the case of a weak-singlet vectorlike $B$ quark that can decay to a singlet scalar or pseudoscalar $\Phi$. In an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 Jai Bardhan , Tanumoy Mandal , Subhadip Mitra , Cyrin Neeraj

Vector-like quarks are introduced in various new physics models beyond the standard model (SM) at the TeV scale. We especially consider the case that the quark is singlet (triplet) under the SU(2)$_L$ (SU(3)$_c$) gauge group and couples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Keisuke Harigaya , Shigeki Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Kohsaku Tobioka

A search for pair production of massive vector-like T and B quarks in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV is presented. The data set was collected in 2015 by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-22 CMS Collaboration

A search is performed for a vector-like heavy T quark that is produced in pairs and that decays to a top quark and a Higgs boson. The data analysed correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns collected with the CMS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-07-02 CMS Collaboration

The vector-like quarks are predicted in many new physics scenarios beyond the Standard Model~(SM) and could be seen potential signatures of new physics at the TeV energy scale. In this work, we study single production of exotic singlet and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Jin-Zhong Han , Jing Yang , Shuai Xu , Han-Kui Wang

Vector-like quarks~(VLQs) are a common feature of many scenarios of new physics beyond the Standard Model~(SM), which generally decay into a SM third-generation quark with a SM gauge boson, or a Higgs boson. The presence of a new exotic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-23 Jin-Zhong Han , Yao-Bei Liu , Shi-Yu Xu

The new heavy vector-like top partner~($T$) is one of typical features of many new physics models beyond the standard model. In this paper we study the discovery potential of the LHC for the vector-like $T$-quark both in the leptonic $T\to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-03 Yao-Bei Liu , Yu-Qi Li

We propose a search at the LHC for GeV-scale particles coupling predominantly to light quarks based on low-multiplicity jets. The search targets production in association with a hard photon and uses the feature that a light gauge-singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Carlos Henrique de Lima , David McKeen , Maximilian Swiatlowski

We investigate the discovery potential of the $3~{\rm TeV}$ Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) for a singlet vector-like bottom partner $B$ decaying via $B \to tW$. Focusing on the fully hadronic final state $B\bar{B} \to tW\,tW$, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Baoxia Wang , Shuo Yang , Pengxuan Zhu

A search is presented for the pair-production of heavy vector-like quarks in the lepton+jets final state using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 13$ TeV collected with the ATLAS detector. The search is optimised for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-30 ATLAS Collaboration

A search is presented for the production of vector-like quark pairs, T$\overline{\mathrm{T}}$ or Y$\overline{\mathrm{Y}}$, with electric charge of 2/3 (T) or -4/3 (Y), in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. The data were…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-23 CMS Collaboration

We investigate the discovery prospects for a vector-like top partner (VLT) in the Type-II Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM-II) extended by a vector-like quark doublet ($TB$) at the 14~TeV LHC. The study focuses on the pair production process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-26 Abdesslam Arhrib , Rachid Benbrik , Mbark Berrouj , Mohammed Boukidi , Bouzid Manaut

We explore the discovery potential of an ultraheavy $(7-8.5$ TeV) diquark scalar produced in the collisions of two up quarks at the LHC. Assuming that the diquark scalar decays into two vectorlike quarks of mass around 2 TeV, each of them…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 Ioana Duminica , Calin Alexa , Ioan M. Dinu , Bogdan A. Dobrescu , Matei-Stefan Filip

A search for pair-produced vector-like quarks using events with exactly one lepton ($e$ or $\mu$), at least four jets including at least one $b$-tagged jet, and large missing transverse momentum is presented. Data from proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-21 ATLAS Collaboration

We systematically study the possible signals at LHC of new vector-like quarks mainly coupled to the third generation. We consider heavy quarks T, B, X, Y of charges 2/3, -1/3, 5/3 and -4/3, respectively, in SU(2)_L isosinglets T_{L,R},…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

New vectorlike quarks are predicted in many new physics scenarios beyond the Standard Model~(SM) and could potentially be discovered at the LHC. Based on a simplified model including a singlet vectorlike top partner with charge $2/3$, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-22 Xiao-Min Cui , Yu-Qi Li , Yao-Bei Liu

This study investigates the discovery potential of a singly produced vector-like top quark ($T$) at a future muon-proton collider with center-of-mass energies of 5.29, 6.48, and 9.16 TeV, using a model-independent effective Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Mudassar Hussain , Ijaz Ahmed , Tayyab Javaid , Haroon Saghir , Jamil Muhammad

In this paper, we study the discovery potential of a Vector-Like $B$ quark (VLB) via the process $pp \to B(\to bZ)j\to b(Z \to \nu_l\bar{\nu_l})j$ at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. In the framework of a simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Bingfang Yang , Zejun Li , Xinglong Jia , Stefano Moretti , Liangliang Shang

A comprehensive extension of the ordinary 2-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM), supplemented by Vector-Like Quarks (VLQs), in the "alignment limit" is presented. In such a scenario, we study the possibility that Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searches…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-13 Abdesslam Arhrib , Rachid Benbrik , Mohammed Boukidi , Bouzid Manaut , Stefano Moretti