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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Search for Pair Production of a New b' Quark that Decays into a Z Boson and a Bottom Quark with the ATLAS Detector
Atlas CollaborationVasiliki MitsouJuan A. Fuster VerdúAntonio Ferrer SoriaMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezSusana Cabrera UrbánCarmen García GarcíaEmilio Higón RodríguezSalvador Martí GarcíaEduardo Ros MartínezSantiago González De La HozJosé Salt CairolsJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMohammed KaciLuca FioriniYesenia Hernández JiménezCarlos Lacasta LlácerMiguel Villaplana Pérezsubject
Acceleradors de partículesHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentPartícules (Física nuclear)Detectors de radiaciódescription
A search is reported for the pair production of a new quark b' with at least one b' decaying to a Z boson and a bottom quark. The data, corresponding to 2.0 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity, were collected from pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Using events with a b-tagged jet and a Z boson reconstructed from opposite-charge electrons, the mass distribution of large transverse momentum b' candidates is tested for an enhancement. No evidence for a b' signal is detected in the observed mass distribution, resulting in the exclusion at a 95% confidence level of b' quarks with masses m(b)' Z + b. In the case of a vectorlike singlet b' mixing solely with the third standard model generation, masses m(b)' < 358 GeV are excluded.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 |