[PDF] Top 20 Search for pair-produced resonances decaying to quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV

... 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 events, ... See full document

... depositions to the jet momentum. To mitigate this effect, tracks identified to be originating from pileup vertices are discarded and an offset correction [46] is applied to correct for ... 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- stitutes for their ... See full document

... and In- dustrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the Consorzio per la ... 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 for their contributions ... 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- stitutes for their ... See full document

... D. Abbaneo, E. Auffray, G. Auzinger, M. Bachtis, P. Baillon, A.H. Ball, D. Barney, P. Bloch, A. Bocci, C. Botta, T. Camporesi, R. Castello, M. Cepeda, G. Cerminara, Y. Chen, 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 for their contributions ... See full document

... S. Abdullin, M. Albrow, M. Alyari, G. Apollinari, A. Apresyan, A. Apyan, S. Banerjee, L.A.T. Bauerdick, A. Beretvas, J. Berryhill, P.C. Bhat, G. Bolla † , K. Burkett, J.N. Butler, A. Canepa, G.B. Cerati, ... See full document

... degraded to reproduce the resolution observed in ...required to have p T > 20 GeV, | η | < 2 . 4 and to be separated by  R > 0 ...required to have p T > 180 GeV, | η | < ... See full document

... used in this analysis were collected by the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and 25 ns proton bunch crossing interval ... See full document

... selected to contain one electron [54] and one muon [55] of opposite charge, both of which are required to have p T > 20 GeV and jηj < ...required to be sufficiently isolated from nearby jet ... See full document

... Owing to the possible role of third-generation quarks in the solution of problems in electroweak symmetry breaking, the VLQs in many of the aforementioned models mix predominantly with third ... See full document

... used to generate the 13 TeV MC ...of produced ~g hadronizing into a ~g-gluon state is an arbitrary value of the hadronization ...neutral at production. For this search, results ... See full document

... referred to as W  [1] ...fraction to the third generation of ...caying to a tau lepton and neutrino have never been performed before, while the electron and muon channels have been studied ... See full document

... performed at the CERN LHC [9–11] and elsewhere ...excited quark with the SM up- or down-type quarks. This paper reports on a search by the CMS Collaboration, using the tW decay mode, for an excited ... See full document

... LQs decaying exclusively into a top quark and a muon, BðLQ → tμÞ ¼ 1, are excluded at 95% ...up to 1420 GeV, exceeding the best previous limit, obtained from a reinterpretation [36] of a ... See full document

... obtained at NLO using the MCFM [25] pro- gram with the MSTW2008 ...tion in association with jets (W + light jets, W b¯b, W c¯ c, W c and Z+jets with up to five additional partons) is simulated using ... See full document

... solution to remaining problems with the structure of the SM, particularly the hierarchy problem, leads naturally to the introduction of physics beyond the standard model (BSM), pos- sibly at the ... See full document

... included in the joint likelihood maximization to account for the vari- ous systematic uncertainties described ...taken to be 100% correlated in the fitting ...channels to further ... See full document