Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a b quark and a Higgs boson
- Yerevan Phys. Inst.
- Vienna, OAW
- Vienna, OAW; TU Vienna
- Minsk, Inst. Nucl. Problems
- Antwerp U.
- Vrije U., Brussels
- Brussels U.
- Gent U.
- Gent U.; IRFU, Saclay
- Louvain U.
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- Rio de Janeiro State U.
- Rio de Janeiro State U.; U. Campinas
- Rio de Janeiro State U.; Rio Grande do Sul U.
- Sao Paulo, IFT
- ABC Federal U.
- Sofiya, Inst. Nucl. Res.
- Sofiya U.
- BeiHang U.; Brussels U.
- BeiHang U.
- Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.
- Peking U.
- Peking U.; Brussels U.
- Tsinghua U., Beijing
- Andes U., Bogota
- Split Tech. U.
- Split U.
- Boskovic Inst., Zagreb
- Boskovic Inst., Zagreb; Moscow, ITEP
- Cyprus U.
- Charles U.; Dubna, JINR
- San Francisco de Quito U.
- Cairo, Acad. Sci. Res. Tech.; Cairo U.
- Cairo, Acad. Sci. Res. Tech.; Suez Canal U.; British U. in Egypt
- Cairo, Acad. Sci. Res. Tech.; Ain Shams U., Cairo
- NICPB, Tallinn
- Helsinki U.
- Helsinki Inst. of Phys.
- Lappeenranta U. Tech.
- IRFU, Saclay
- Ecole Polytechnique; Jeddah U.
- Ecole Polytechnique
- Strasbourg, IPHC; Haute Alsace U.
- Strasbourg, IPHC
- CC, Villeurbanne
- Lyon, IPN
- Lyon, IPN; Moscow State U.
- GTU, Tbilisi; Tbilisi State U.
- Tbilisi State U.; Dubna, JINR
- Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.
- Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.; Moscow State U.
- Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.; CERN
- DESY
- DESY; Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.
- DESY; Hamburg U.
- DESY; Brandenburg Tech. U.
- Hamburg U.
- Hamburg U.; CERN
- KIT, Karlsruhe, EKP
- KIT, Karlsruhe, EKP; CERN
- Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.
- Athens U.
- Natl. Tech. U., Athens
- Ioannina U.
- Eotvos U.
- Budapest, RMKI
- Budapest, RMKI; Debrecen, Inst. Nucl. Res.
- Budapest, RMKI; Eotvos U.
- Debrecen, Inst. Nucl. Res.
- Debrecen, Inst. Nucl. Res.; U. Debrecen, Inst. Phys.
- U. Debrecen, Inst. Phys.; Eotvos U.
- U. Debrecen, Inst. Phys.
- Bangalore, Indian Inst. Sci.
- Bhubaneswar, NISER; Indian Inst. Tech., Bhubaneswar
- Bhubaneswar, NISER
- Bhubaneswar, NISER; Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys.
- Panjab U.
- Delhi U.
- Saha Inst.
- Indian Inst. Tech., Madras
- Bhabha Atomic Res. Ctr.
- Bhabha Atomic Res. Ctr.; CERN
- TIFR, Mumbai, DHEP
- TIFR, Mumbai, DHEP; Visva Bharati U.
- TIFR, Mumbai, DHEP; Ruhuna U.
- IISER, Pune
- IPM, Tehran; Isfahan Tech. U.
- IPM, Tehran
- IPM, Tehran; Yazd U.
- IPM, Tehran; Islamic Azad U., Sci. Res. Branch, Tehran
- University Coll., Dublin
- INFN, Bari; Bari U.
- INFN, Bari
- INFN, Bari; Bari Polytechnic
- INFN, Bari; CERN
- INFN, Bologna
- INFN, Bologna; Bologna U.
- INFN, Catania; Catania U.
- INFN, Catania
- INFN, Florence
- INFN, Florence; Florence U.
- INFN, Florence; Siena U.
- Frascati
- Frascati; CERN
- INFN, Genoa; Genoa U.
- INFN, Genoa
- INFN, Milan Bicocca
- Milan Bicocca U.
- INFN, Milan Bicocca; Milan Bicocca U.
- INFN, Milan Bicocca; Milan Bicocca U.; CERN
- INFN, Naples
- INFN, Naples; Basilicata U., Potenza
- INFN, Naples; Guglielmo Marconi U.; CERN
- INFN, Naples; Naples U.
- INFN, Naples; CERN
- INFN, Padua
- INFN, Padua; Padua U.
- INFN, Pavia
- INFN, Pavia; Pavia U.
- INFN, Perugia; Perugia U.
- INFN, Perugia
- INFN, Pisa
- INFN, Pisa; CERN
- INFN, Pisa; Pisa U.
- INFN, Pisa; Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore
- INFN, Pisa; Siena U.
- INFN, Rome; Rome U.
- INFN, Rome
- INFN, Turin; Turin U.
- INFN, Turin; Piemonte Orientale U., Novara
- INFN, Turin
- INFN, Trieste
- INFN, Trieste; Trieste U.
- CHEP, Taegu
- Chonnam Natl. U.
- Hanyang U.
- Korea U.
- Seoul Natl. U.
- Seoul U.
- Sungkyunkwan U.
- Vilnius U.
- Malaya U.
- Malaya U.; IIUM, Kuala Lumpur
- Malaya U.; MOSTI, Malaysian Nucl. Agency, Kajang
- CINVESTAV, IPN
- CINVESTAV, IPN; Conacyt, Mexico
- Iberoamericana U.
- Puebla U., Inst. Fis.
- San Luis Potosi U.
- Auckland U.
- Canterbury U.
- Quaid-i-Azam U.
- NCBJ, Swierk
- Warsaw U.
- Warsaw U.; Warsaw U. of Tech.
- LIP, Lisbon
- Dubna, JINR
- Dubna, JINR; Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.
- St. Petersburg, INP
- St. Petersburg, INP; St. Petersburg Polytechnic Inst.
- St. Petersburg, INP; Florida U.
- Moscow, INR
- Moscow, ITEP
- Moscow, MIPT
- Moscow, MIPT; Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.
- Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.; Lebedev Inst.
- Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.
- Lebedev Inst.
- Lebedev Inst.; Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.
- Moscow State U.
- Moscow State U.; Caltech
- Novosibirsk State U.; Novosibirsk, IYF
- Serpukhov, IHEP
- VINCA Inst. Nucl. Sci., Belgrade; Belgrade U.
- VINCA Inst. Nucl. Sci., Belgrade
- Madrid, CIEMAT
- Madrid, Autonoma U.
- Oviedo U.
- Cantabria Inst. of Phys.
- CERN
- CERN; Brandenburg Tech. U.
- CERN; TU Vienna
- CERN; VINCA Inst. Nucl. Sci., Belgrade
- CERN; Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore
- CERN; Athens U.
- CERN; Riga Tech. U.
- PSI, Villigen
- PSI, Villigen; Zurich U.
- Zurich, ETH
- Zurich U.
- Zurich U.; Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.
- Taiwan, Natl. Central U.
- Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.
- Chulalongkorn U.
- Cukurova U.
- Cukurova U.; Adiyaman U.
- Cukurova U.; Istanbul Aydin U.
- Cukurova U.; Mersin U.
- Cukurova U.; Piri Reis U., Istanbul
- Cukurova U.; Gaziosmanpasa U.
- Middle East Tech. U., Ankara; Izmir Inst. Tech.
- Middle East Tech. U., Ankara; Necmettin Erbakan U., Konya
- Middle East Tech. U., Ankara
- Bogazici U.
- Bogazici U.; Marmara U.
- Bogazici U.; Kafkas U.
- Bogazici U.; Istanbul Bilgi U.
- Istanbul, Tech. U.
- Inst. Scintill. Mat., Kharkiv
- Kharkov, KIPT
- Bristol U.
- Bristol U.; Rutherford
- Rutherford
- Rutherford; Southampton U.
- Imperial Coll., London
- Imperial Coll., London; Monash U.
- Imperial Coll., London; Moscow, ITEP
- Imperial Coll., London; IAC, La Laguna
- Imperial Coll., London; CERN
- Brunel U.
- Baylor U.
- Catholic U. America
- Alabama U.
- Boston U.
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- UC, Davis
- UCLA
- UC, Riverside
- UC, San Diego
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- Caltech
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- Fermilab
- Fermilab; Purdue U.
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- Florida Intl. U.
- Florida State U.
- Florida Inst. Tech.
- Illinois U., Chicago
- Iowa U.; Beykent U.
- Iowa U.
- Iowa U.; Bingöl U.
- Iowa U.; Erzincan U.
- Iowa U.; Sinop U.
- Iowa U.; Mimar Sinan U.
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- LLNL, Livermore
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- MIT
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- SUNY, Buffalo
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- Notre Dame U.; Dubna, JINR
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- Tennessee U.
- Texas A-M; Texas A&M U. Qatar, Doha
- Texas A-M
- Texas A-M; CHEP, Taegu
- Texas Tech.
- Vanderbilt U.
- Virginia U.
- Wayne State U.
- Wisconsin U., Madison
A search is presented for single production of heavy vector-like quarks (B) that decay to a Higgs boson and a b quark, with the Higgs boson decaying to a highly boosted $$ \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} $$ pair reconstructed as a single collimated jet. The analysis is based on data collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$$^{−1}$$. The data are consistent with background expectations, and upper limits at 95% confidence level on the product of the B quark cross section and the branching fraction are obtained in the range 1.28–0.07 pb, for a narrow B quark with a mass between 700 and 1800 GeV. The production of B quarks with widths of 10, 20 and 30% of the resonance mass is also considered, and the sensitivities obtained are similar to those achieved in the narrow width case. This is the first search at the CERN LHC for the single production of a B quark through its fully hadronic decay channel, and the first study considering finite resonance widths of the B quark.
- Research Organization:
- ABC Federal U.; Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.; Adiyaman U.; Ain Shams U., Cairo; Alabama U.; Andes U., Bogota; Antwerp U.; Athens U.; Auckland U.; Bangalore, Indian Inst. Sci.; Bari Polytechnic; Bari U.; Basilicata U., Potenza; Baylor U.; BeiHang U.; Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.; Belgrade U.; Beykent U.; Bhabha Atomic Res. Ctr.; Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys.; Bhubaneswar, NISER; Bingöl U.; Bogazici U.; Bologna U.; Boskovic Inst., Zagreb; Boston U.; Brandenburg Tech. U.; Bristol U.; British U. in Egypt; Brown U.; Brunel U.; Brussels U.; Budapest, RMKI; CC, Villeurbanne; CERN; CHEP, Taegu; CINVESTAV, IPN; Cairo U.; Cairo, Acad. Sci. Res. Tech.; Caltech; Cantabria Inst. of Phys.; Canterbury U.; Carnegie Mellon U.; Catania U.; Catholic U. America; Charles U.; Chonnam Natl. U.; Chulalongkorn U.; Colorado U.; Conacyt, Mexico; Cornell U.; Cukurova U.; Cyprus U.; DESY; Debrecen, Inst. Nucl. Res.; Delhi U.; Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.; Dubna, JINR; Ecole Polytechnique; Eotvos U.; Erzincan U.; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Florence U.; Florida Inst. Tech.; Florida Intl. U.; Florida State U.; Florida U.; Frascati; GTU, Tbilisi; Gaziosmanpasa U.; Genoa U.; Gent U.; Guglielmo Marconi U.; Hamburg U.; Hanyang U.; Haute Alsace U.; Helsinki Inst. of Phys.; Helsinki U.; IAC, La Laguna; IISER, Pune; IIUM, Kuala Lumpur; INFN, Bari; INFN, Bologna; INFN, Catania; INFN, Florence; INFN, Genoa; INFN, Milan Bicocca; INFN, Naples; INFN, Padua; INFN, Pavia; INFN, Perugia; INFN, Pisa; INFN, Rome; INFN, Trieste; INFN, Turin; IPM, Tehran; IRFU, Saclay; Iberoamericana U.; Illinois U., Chicago; Imperial Coll., London; Indian Inst. Tech., Bhubaneswar; Indian Inst. Tech., Madras; Inst. Scintill. Mat., Kharkiv; Ioannina U.; Iowa U.; Isfahan Tech. U.; Islamic Azad U., Sci. Res. Branch, Tehran; Istanbul Aydin U.; Istanbul Bilgi U.; Istanbul, Tech. U.; Izmir Inst. Tech.; Jeddah U.; Johns Hopkins U.; KIT, Karlsruhe, EKP; Kafkas U.; Kansas State U.; Kansas U.; Kharkov, KIPT; Korea U.; LIP, Lisbon; Lappeenranta U. Tech.; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Lebedev Inst.; Louvain U.; Lyon, IPN; MIT; MOSTI, Malaysian Nucl. Agency, Kajang; Madrid, Autonoma U.; Madrid, CIEMAT; Malaya U.; Marmara U.; Maryland U.; Mersin U.; Middle East Tech. U., Ankara; Milan Bicocca U.; Mimar Sinan U.; Minnesota U.; Minsk, Inst. Nucl. Problems; Mississippi U.; Monash U.; Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.; Moscow State U.; Moscow, INR; Moscow, ITEP; Moscow, MIPT; NCBJ, Swierk; NICPB, Tallinn; Naples U.; Natl. Tech. U., Athens; Nebraska U.; Necmettin Erbakan U., Konya; Northeastern U.; Northwestern U.; Notre Dame U.; Novosibirsk State U.; Novosibirsk, IYF; Ohio State U.; Oviedo U.; PSI, Villigen; Padua U.; Panjab U.; Pavia U.; Peking U.; Perugia U.; Piemonte Orientale U., Novara; Piri Reis U., Istanbul; Pisa U.; Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore; Princeton U.; Puebla U., Inst. Fis.; Puerto Rico U., Mayaguez; Purdue U.; Purdue U., Calumet; Quaid-i-Azam U.; Rice U.; Riga Tech. U.; Rio Grande do Sul U.; Rio de Janeiro State U.; Rio de Janeiro, CBPF; Rochester U.; Rockefeller U.; Rome U.; Ruhuna U.; Rutgers U., Piscataway; Rutherford; SUNY, Buffalo; Saha Inst.; San Francisco de Quito U.; San Luis Potosi U.; Sao Paulo, IFT; Seoul Natl. U.; Seoul U.; Serpukhov, IHEP; Siena U.; Sinop U.; Sofiya U.; Sofiya, Inst. Nucl. Res.; Southampton U.; Split Tech. U.; Split U.; St. Petersburg Polytechnic Inst.; St. Petersburg, INP; Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.; Strasbourg, IPHC; Suez Canal U.; Sungkyunkwan U.; TIFR, Mumbai, DHEP; TU Vienna; Taiwan, Natl. Central U.; Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; Tbilisi State U.; Tennessee U.; Texas A&M U. Qatar, Doha; Texas A-M; Texas Tech.; Trieste U.; Tsinghua U., Beijing; Turin U.; U. Campinas; U. Debrecen, Inst. Phys.; UC, Davis; UC, Riverside; UC, San Diego; UC, Santa Barbara; UCLA; University Coll., Dublin; Utah Valley U.; VINCA Inst. Nucl. Sci., Belgrade; Vanderbilt U.; Vienna, OAW; Vilnius U.; Virginia U.; Visva Bharati U.; Vrije U., Brussels; Warsaw U.; Warsaw U. of Tech.; Wayne State U.; Wisconsin U., Madison; Yazd U.; Yerevan Phys. Inst.; Zurich U.; Zurich, ETH
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1420412
- Report Number(s):
- CERN-EP-2017-338; CMS-B2G-17-009; FERMILAB-PUB-18-036-CMS; oai:inspirehep.net:1653127; arXiv:1802.01486
- Journal Information:
- JHEP, Journal Name: JHEP Vol. 06
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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