Development of a Lightweight Silicon Pixel Detector for CMS to Search for New Physics in the Top Quark Sector

Technical Report · Fri Aug 03 04:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:1459342

Jung, Andreas ^[1]; Barker, Anthony ^[2]; Das, Souvik ^[2]; Syarif, Rizki ^[2]; Hogan, Julie ^[2]; Richrdson, Clint ^[2]; Sagir, Sinan ^[2]; Benelli, Gabriele ^[2]; Narain, Meenakshi ^[2]

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1. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Purdue University
2. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

The discovery of a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the greatest achievements of experimental particle physics and a triumph for theoretical physics, which culminates in the very successful standard model (SM). Currently the LHC collider provides particle collisions at highest possible energies of $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ TeV, opening a new energy domain. Little Higgs models predict a heavy top quark partner, T, which would cancel the aforementioned top quark loop contributions to the Higgs boson mass. This particle is predicted to have a mass near the TeV scale. We search for a "vector-like" top partner which is an electroweak singlet and has vector couplings to W and Z bosons.

• Research Organization: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
• DOE Contract Number: SC0017904
• OSTI ID: 1459342
• Report Number(s): DOE-PURDUE--17904
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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