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Title: Monotops at the LHC

Abstract

We explore scenarios where top quarks may be produced singly in association with missing energy, a very distinctive signature, which, in analogy with monojets, we dub monotops. We find that monotops can be produced in a variety of modes, typically characterized by baryon number-violating or flavorchanging neutral interactions. We build a simplified model that encompasses all the possible (tree-level) production mechanisms and study the LHC sensitiveness to a few representative scenarios by considering fully hadronic top decays. We find that constraints on such exotic models can already be set with 1 fb{sup -1} of integrated luminosity collected at {radical}(s)=7 TeV.

Authors:
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien/Departement Recherches Subatomiques, Universite de Strasbourg/CNRS-IN2P3, 23 Rue du Loess, F-67037 Strasbourg (France)
  2. Center for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
21607783
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 84; Journal Issue: 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.074025; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; BARYON NUMBER; CERN LHC; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; LUMINOSITY; PARTICLE DECAY; SIMULATION; T QUARKS; TEV RANGE 01-10; WEAK HADRONIC DECAY; ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARKS; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS; TEV RANGE; TOP PARTICLES; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY

Citation Formats

Andrea, J, Fuks, B, and Maltoni, F. Monotops at the LHC. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVD.84.074025.
Andrea, J, Fuks, B, & Maltoni, F. Monotops at the LHC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.84.074025
Andrea, J, Fuks, B, and Maltoni, F. 2011. "Monotops at the LHC". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.84.074025.
@article{osti_21607783,
title = {Monotops at the LHC},
author = {Andrea, J and Fuks, B and Maltoni, F},
abstractNote = {We explore scenarios where top quarks may be produced singly in association with missing energy, a very distinctive signature, which, in analogy with monojets, we dub monotops. We find that monotops can be produced in a variety of modes, typically characterized by baryon number-violating or flavorchanging neutral interactions. We build a simplified model that encompasses all the possible (tree-level) production mechanisms and study the LHC sensitiveness to a few representative scenarios by considering fully hadronic top decays. We find that constraints on such exotic models can already be set with 1 fb{sup -1} of integrated luminosity collected at {radical}(s)=7 TeV.},
doi = {10.1103/PHYSREVD.84.074025},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21607783}, journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles Fields},
issn = {0556-2821},
number = 7,
volume = 84,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
}