[PDF] Top 20 Search for a $W$ ' boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC ...technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator depart- ments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS in- ... See full document

... entries in Table 1 also include the τ decay mode contributions. Single-top-quark production is dominated by the Wt ...production and a reasonable agreement is observed between data and ... See full document

... classes in the electron and the muon channels at a center-of-mass energy of 7 and 8 TeV ...events at 7 TeV for the dijet-tagged event class, the electron ... See full document

... lepton+jets, and dilepton channels are combined. In form- ing the combination of separate channels, systematic uncertainties affecting both the shape and the event yield are taken into ...determined ... See full document

... D. Abbaneo, E. Auffray, G. Auzinger, P. Baillon, A.H. Ball, D. Barney, P. Bloch, A. Bocci, C. Botta, T. Camporesi, R. Castello, M. Cepeda, G. Cerminara, Y. Chen, A. Cimmino, D. d’Enterria, A. Dabrowski, V. Daponte, A. ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes ... See full document

... m in length and 6 m in diameter, which provides an axial magnetic field of ...pixel and silicon strip trackers, covering 0 ≤ φ < 2π in azimuth and | η | < ...2.5 in ... See full document

... A search for flavor-changing neutral currents in the decay of a top quark to a charm or up quark and a Higgs boson based on √ s = 8 TeV proton-proton ... See full document

... answers to the hierarchy problem, among other shortcom- ings, has led to the development of many theories for new physics that lies beyond the ...symmetries in the theo- ries, and it is common ... See full document

... programme and the European Re- search Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the ...Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Sci- ence and ... See full document

... CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIEN- CIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Repub- lic; DNRF, DNSRC ... See full document

... required to have p T > 15 GeV and | η | < ...applied to discriminate against e and µ, since these particles could be misidentified as one- prong τ h ...candidates in the region ... See full document

... S. Jakobsen 30 , T. Jakoubek 127 , J. Jakubek 128 , D.O. Jamin 114 , D.K. Jana 79 , E. Jansen 78 , R. Jansky 62 , J. Janssen 21 , M. Janus 54 , G. Jarlskog 81 , N. Javadov 65,b , T. Jav˚urek 48 , L. Jeanty 15 , J. ... See full document

... events in which the associated W boson, and the W boson of the same charge from the tt system, each decay to a lepton and a neutrino, and the remaining ... See full document

... applied to reduce SM background ...using S= p ffiffiffiffi B as the metric within a mass window centered at the generated m ˜t , where S and B are the number of signal and background ... See full document

... A search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t → Zq is per- formed in events produced from the decay chain tt → Zq + Wb, where both vec- tor bosons decay ... See full document

... tests and its predic- tions have often been matched by experimental data with amazing ...particles and their interactions since it has a number of shortcomings, ...fails to incorporate gravity ... See full document

... Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; the Brazilian Fund- ing Agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP); the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN; the Chinese Academy ... See full document

... a search for narrow b ¯b resonances with masses between 50 and 350 GeV in events collected in p ffiffiffi s ¼ 13 TeV proton-proton (pp) collisions with the CMS detector ... See full document