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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Search for single b*-quark production with the ATLAS detector at root s=7 TeV

Atlas CollaborationSusana Cabrera UrbánMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezMaría José Costa MezquitaFarida FassiAntonio Ferrer SoriaLuca FioriniJuan A. Fuster VerdúCarmen García GarcíaJosé Enrique García NavarroSantiago González De La HozYesenia Hernández JiménezEmilio Higón RodríguezAdrián Irles QuilesMohammed KaciCarlos Lacasta LlácerVicente Lacuesta MiquelLuis March RuizSalvador Martí GarcíaMercedes Miñano MoyaVasiliki MitsouRegina Moles VallsMaría Moreno LlácerElena Oliver GarcíaSebastián Pedraza LópezMaría Teresa Pérez García-estañE. Romero AdamEduardo Ros MartínezJosé Salt CairolsVictoria Sánchez MartínezCarlos Antonio Solans SánchezU. SoldevilaJavier Sánchez MartínezEmma Torró PastorAlberto Valero BiotE. Valladolid GallegoJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMiguel Villaplana PérezMarcel Vos

subject

High Energy Physics::LatticeNuclear TheoryHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentFísica nuclear

description

The results of a search for an excited bottom-quark b* in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV, using 4.7/fb of data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. In the model studied, a single b*-quark is produced through a chromomagnetic interaction and subsequently decays to a W boson and a top-quark. The search is performed in the dilepton and lepton+jets final states, which are combined to set limits on b*-quark couplings for a range of b*-quark masses. For a benchmark with unit size chromomagnetic and Standard Model-like electroweak b* couplings, b*-quarks with masses less than 870 GeV are excluded at the 95% credibility level.

10.1016/j.physletb.2013.03.016http://hdl.handle.net/10550/37967