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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Search for pair-produced heavy quarks decaying to Wq in the two-lepton channel at root(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Atlas CollaborationVasiliki MitsouJuan A. Fuster VerdúAntonio Ferrer SoriaSusana Cabrera UrbánCarmen García GarcíaMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezEmilio Higón RodríguezSalvador Martí GarcíaEduardo Ros MartínezSantiago González De La HozJosé Salt CairolsJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMohammed KaciLuca FioriniYesenia Hernández JiménezCarlos Lacasta LlácerMiguel Villaplana Pérez

subject

Acceleradors de partículesHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentFísica nuclearNuclear ExperimentPartícules (Física nuclear)

description

A search is presented for heavy-quark pair production (Q (Q) over bar) under the decay hypothesis Q (Q) over bar -> W(+)qW(-)(q) over bar with q = d, s, b for up-type Q or q = u, c for down-type Q. The search is performed with 1.04 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity from pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC. Dilepton final states are selected, requiring large missing transverse momentum and at least two jets. Mass reconstruction of heavy-quark candidates is performed by assuming that the W boson decay products are nearly collinear. The data are in agreement with standard model expectations; a heavy quark with mass less than 350 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level.

10.1103/physrevd.86.012007http://hdl.handle.net/10550/36748