A search for tt¯ resonances in lepton+jets events with highly boosted top quarks collected in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Ferrando, James (2012) A search for tt¯ resonances in lepton+jets events with highly boosted top quarks collected in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 (9): 41. ISSN 1029-8479

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Abstract

A search for resonant production of high-mass top-quark pairs is performed on 2.05 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at s√=7 TeV collected in 2011 with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. This analysis of the lepton+jets final state is specifically designed for the particular topology that arises from the decay of highly boosted top quarks. The observed tt¯ invariant mass spectrum is found to be compatible with the Standard Model prediction and 95% credibility level upper limits are derived on the tt¯ production rate through new massive states. An upper limit of 0.7 pb is set on the production cross section times branching fraction of a narrow 1 TeV resonance. A Kaluza-Klein gluon with a mass smaller than 1.5 TeV is excluded.

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Journal of High Energy Physics
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?? hadron-hadron scatteringnuclear and high energy physics ??
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17 Dec 2013 00:03
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