Search for production of vector-like quark pairs and of four top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at root 8=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdinov, O.; Aben, R.; Abolins, M.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abramowicz, H.; Abreu, H.; Abreu, R.; Abulaiti, Y.; Acharya, B. S.; Adamczyk, L.; Adams, D. L.; Adelman, J.; Adomeit, S.; Adye, T.; Affolder, A. A.

doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2015)105

Title: Search for production of vector-like quark pairs and of four top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at root 8=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal Article · Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2015)105· OSTI ID:1223090

Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdinov, O.; Aben, R.; Abolins, M.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abramowicz, H.; Abreu, H.; Abreu, R.; Abulaiti, Y.; Acharya, B. S.; Adamczyk, L.; Adams, D. L.; Adelman, J.; Adomeit, S.; Adye, T.; Affolder, A. A.

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: DE-SC00112704

OSTI ID:: 1223090

Report Number(s):: BNL-108485-2015-JA; KA1101021

Journal Information:: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (90)

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC Aad, G.; Abajyan, T.; Abbott, B. Physics Letters B, Vol. 716, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020	journal	September 2012
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC Chatrchyan, S.; Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M. Physics Letters B, Vol. 716, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021	journal	September 2012
The Littlest Higgs Arkani-Hamed, Nima; Cohen, Andrew G.; Katz, Emanuel Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2002, Issue 07 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2002/07/034	journal	July 2002
Little Higgs Theories Schmaltz, Martin; Tucker-Smith, David Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 55, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nucl.55.090704.151502	journal	December 2005
Composite Higgs scalars Kaplan, David B.; Georgi, Howard; Dimopoulos, Savas Physics Letters B, Vol. 136, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(84)91178-X	journal	March 1984
The minimal composite Higgs model Agashe, Kaustubh; Contino, Roberto; Pomarol, Alex Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 719, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.04.035	journal	July 2005
Strong dynamics and electroweak symmetry breaking Hill, Christopher T.; Simmons, Elizabeth H. Physics Reports, Vol. 381, Issue 4-6 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-1573(03)00140-6	journal	July 2003
The possibility of new fermions with ΔI = 0 mass Del Aguila, F.; Bowick, M. J. Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 224, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(83)90316-4	journal	August 1983
Identifying top partners at LHC Aguilar–Saavedra, J. A. Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2009, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/030	journal	November 2009
Mixing with vector-like quarks: constraints and expectations Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol. 60 https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136016012	journal	January 2013
Model-independent searches for new quarks at the LHC Atre, Anupama; Azuelos, Georges; Carena, Marcela Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2011)080	journal	August 2011
Search for Pair Production of a Heavy Up-Type Quark Decaying to a $W$ Boson and a $b$ Quark in the $lepton + jets$ Channel with the ATLAS Detector Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.261802	journal	June 2012
Search for pair-produced heavy quarks decaying to $W q$ in the two-lepton channel at $\sqrt{(} s) = 7 TeV$ with the ATLAS detector Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. Physical Review D, Vol. 86, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.012007	journal	July 2012
Search for pair produced fourth-generation up-type quarks in pp collisions at <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>7</mml:mn><mml:mtext> TeV</mml:mtext></mml:math> with a lepton in the final state Chatrchyan, S.; Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M. Physics Letters B, Vol. 718, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.038	journal	December 2012
Search for heavy, top-like quark pair production in the dilepton final state in pp collisions at <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>7</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext>TeV</mml:mtext></mml:math> Chatrchyan, S.; Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M. Physics Letters B, Vol. 716, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.07.059	journal	September 2012
Search for Pair Production of a New $b^{'}$ Quark that Decays into a $Z$ Boson and a Bottom Quark with the ATLAS Detector Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071801	journal	August 2012
Search for a Vectorlike Quark with Charge $2 / 3$ in $t + Z$ Events from $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ Chatrchyan, S.; Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 27 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.271802	journal	December 2011
Search for Down-Type Fourth Generation Quarks with the ATLAS Detector in Events with One Lepton and Hadronically Decaying $W$ Bosons Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.032001	journal	July 2012
Search for pair production of heavy top-like quarks decaying to a high-<mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">T</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:math> W boson and a b quark in the lepton plus jets final state at <mml:math altimg="si2.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>7</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext>TeV</mml:mtext></mml:math> with the ATLAS detector Aad, G.; Abajyan, T.; Abbott, B. Physics Letters B, Vol. 718, Issue 4-5 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.071	journal	January 2013
Search for vectorlike $B$ quarks in events with one isolated lepton, missing transverse momentum, and jets at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS detector Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. Physical Review D, Vol. 91, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.112011	journal	June 2015
Inclusive search for a vector-like T quark with charge <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd" xmlns:sa="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-aff/dtd"><mml:mfrac><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:mfrac></mml:math> in pp collisions at <mml:math altimg="si2.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd" xmlns:sa="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-aff/dtd"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>8</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext>TeV</mml:mtext></mml:math> Chatrchyan, S.; Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M. Physics Letters B, Vol. 729 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.01.006	journal	February 2014
Top compositeness at the Tevatron and LHC Lillie, Ben; Shu, Jing; Tait, Tim M. P. Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2008, Issue 04 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/087	journal	April 2008
Manifestations of top compositeness at colliders Kumar, Kunal; Tait, Tim M. P.; Vega-Morales, Roberto Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2009, Issue 05 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/022	journal	May 2009
Associated production of a Kaluza–Klein excitation of a gluon with a <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:mi>t</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>t</mml:mi><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mover></mml:math> pair at the LHC Guchait, M.; Mahmoudi, F.; Sridhar, K. Physics Letters B, Vol. 666, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.07.085	journal	September 2008
Seeking sgluons Plehn, Tilman; Tait, Tim M. P. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 36, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/36/7/075001	journal	April 2009
Color-octet scalars of <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:math> supersymmetry at the LHC Choi, S. Y.; Drees, M.; Kalinowski, J. Physics Letters B, Vol. 672, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.01.040	journal	February 2009
Vectorlike confinement at the LHC Kilic, Can; Okui, Takemichi; Sundrum, Raman Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2010, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2010)018	journal	February 2010
Colored resonances at the Tevatron: phenomenology and discovery potential in multijets Kilic, Can; Okui, Takemichi; Sundrum, Raman Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2008, Issue 07 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/038	journal	July 2008
Searching for sgluons in multitop events at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV Calvet, Samuel; Fuks, Benjamin; Gris, Philippe Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2013)043	journal	April 2013
A dark matter candidate from Lorentz invariance in 6D Cacciapaglia, Giacomo; Deandrea, Aldo; Llodra-Perez, Jérémie Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2010, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2010)083	journal	March 2010
Four tops on the real projective plane at LHC Cacciapaglia, Giacomo; Chierici, Roberto; Deandrea, Aldo Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2011)042	journal	October 2011
Dark Matter in a twisted bottle Arbey, Alexandre; Cacciapaglia, Giacomo; Deandrea, Aldo Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2013)147	journal	January 2013
Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010 Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 72, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1849-1	journal	January 2012
Electron reconstruction and identification efficiency measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2011 LHC proton–proton collision data Aad, G.; Abajyan, T.; Abbott, B. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 74, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2941-0	journal	July 2014
Muon reconstruction efficiency and momentum resolution of the ATLAS experiment in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ s = 7 TeV in 2010 Aad, G.; Abajyan, T.; Abbott, B. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 74, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3034-9	journal	September 2014
Measurement of the muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector using 2011 and 2012 LHC proton–proton collision data Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 74, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3130-x	journal	November 2014
The anti- k _t jet clustering algorithm Cacciari, Matteo; Salam, Gavin P.; Soyez, Gregory Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2008, Issue 04 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/063	journal	April 2008
Dispelling the <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:msup><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:math> myth for the <mml:math altimg="si2.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mi>t</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math> jet-finder Cacciari, Matteo; Salam, Gavin P. Physics Letters B, Vol. 641, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2006.08.037	journal	September 2006
FastJet user manual: (for version 3.0.2) Cacciari, Matteo; Salam, Gavin P.; Soyez, Gregory The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 72, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1896-2	journal	March 2012
Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{\mathrm{s}}=7\ \mathrm{TeV}$ Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 73, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2304-2	journal	March 2013
Jet energy measurement and its systematic uncertainty in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector Aad, G.; Abajyan, T.; Abbott, B. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 75, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3190-y	journal	January 2015
Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7~\mbox{TeV}$ with ATLAS Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 72, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1844-6	journal	January 2012
Improved luminosity determination in pp collisions at $\sqrt {s} = 7\ \mathrm{TeV}$ using the ATLAS detector at the LHC Aad, G.; Abajyan, T.; Abbott, B. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 73, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2518-3	journal	August 2013
Top++: A program for the calculation of the top-pair cross-section at hadron colliders Czakon, Michał; Mitov, Alexander Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 185, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2014.06.021	journal	November 2014
Top-pair production at hadron colliders with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic soft-gluon resummation Cacciari, Matteo; Czakon, Michał; Mangano, Michelangelo Physics Letters B, Vol. 710, Issue 4-5 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.013	journal	April 2012
Percent-Level-Precision Physics at the Tevatron: Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to $q \bar{q} \to t \bar{t} + X$ Bärnreuther, Peter; Czakon, Michał; Mitov, Alexander Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.132001	journal	September 2012
NNLO corrections to top-pair production at hadron colliders: the all-fermionic scattering channels Czakon, Michal; Mitov, Alexander Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2012, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2012)054	journal	December 2012
NNLO corrections to top pair production at hadron colliders: the quark-gluon reaction Czakon, Michal; Mitov, Alexander Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2013)080	journal	January 2013
Total Top-Quark Pair-Production Cross Section at Hadron Colliders Through $O (α_{S}^{4})$ Czakon, Michał; Fiedler, Paul; Mitov, Alexander Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.252004	journal	June 2013
Parton distributions for the LHC Martin, A. D.; Stirling, W. J.; Thorne, R. S. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 63, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1072-5	journal	July 2009
Uncertainties on α S in global PDF analyses and implications for predicted hadronic cross sections Martin, A. D.; Stirling, W. J.; Thorne, R. S. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 64, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1164-2	journal	October 2009
Parton distributions with LHC data Ball, Richard D.; Bertone, Valerio; Carrazza, Stefano Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 867, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.10.003	journal	February 2013
PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual Sjöstrand, Torbjörn; Mrenna, Stephen; Skands, Peter Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2006, Issue 05 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2006/05/026	journal	May 2006
Triple-top signal of new physics at the LHC Barger, Vernon; Keung, Wai-Yee; Yencho, Brian Physics Letters B, Vol. 687, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.001	journal	April 2010
Non-resonant new physics in top pair production at hadron colliders Degrande, Céline; Gérard, Jean-Marc; Grojean, Christophe Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2011)125	journal	March 2011
MadGraph 5: going beyond Alwall, Johan; Herquet, Michel; Maltoni, Fabio Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2011)128	journal	June 2011
A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1 Sjöstrand, Torbjörn; Mrenna, Stephen; Skands, Peter Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 178, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2008.01.036	journal	June 2008
The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 70, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1429-9	journal	September 2010
Geant4—a simulation toolkit Agostinelli, S.; Allison, J.; Amako, K. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 506, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01368-8	journal	July 2003
PHOTOS Monte Carlo: a precision tool for QED correctionsin Z and W decays Golonka, P.; Was, Z. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 45, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02396-4	journal	January 2006
TAUOLA - a library of Monte Carlo programs to simulate decays of polarized τ leptons Jadach, Stanisław; Kühn, Johann H.; Wa̧s, Zbigniew Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 64, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-4655(91)90038-M	journal	May 1991
A positive-weight next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo for heavy flavour hadroproduction Frixione, Stefano; Ridolfi, Giovanni; Nason, Paolo Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2007, Issue 09 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/126	journal	September 2007
A New Method for Combining NLO QCD with Shower Monte Carlo Algorithms Nason, Paolo Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2004, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/040	journal	November 2004
Matching NLO QCD computations with parton shower simulations: the POWHEG method Frixione, Stefano; Nason, Paolo; Oleari, Carlo Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2007, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/070	journal	November 2007
A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: the POWHEG BOX Alioli, Simone; Nason, Paolo; Oleari, Carlo Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2010, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2010)043	journal	June 2010
HERWIG 6: an event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes) Corcella, Gennaro; Knowles, Ian G.; Marchesini, Giuseppe Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2001, Issue 01 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/010	journal	January 2001
Measurements of normalized differential cross sections for $t \bar{t}$ production in $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{(s)} = 7 TeV$ using the ATLAS detector Aad, G.; Abajyan, T.; Abbott, B. Physical Review D, Vol. 90, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072004	journal	October 2014
NLO matching for <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd" xmlns:sa="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-aff/dtd"><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">t</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">t</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">b</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">b</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:math> production with massive b-quarks Cascioli, F.; Maierhöfer, P.; Moretti, N. Physics Letters B, Vol. 734 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.040	journal	June 2014
Event generation with SHERPA 1.1 Gleisberg, T.; Höche, S.; Krauss, F. Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2009, Issue 02 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/02/007	journal	February 2009
Scattering Amplitudes with Open Loops Cascioli, F.; Maierhöfer, P.; Pozzorini, S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.111601	journal	March 2012
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into $$\varvec{b\bar{b}}$$ b b ¯ in $$\varvec{pp}$$ p p collisions at $$\sqrt{\mathbf{s}}= \varvec{8{{\,\mathrm TeV}}}$$ s = 8 T e V with the ATLAS detector Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 75, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3543-1	journal	July 2015
ALPGEN, a generator for hard multiparton processes in hadronic collisions Mangano, Michelangelo L.; Piccinini, Fulvio; Polosa, Antonio D. Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2003, Issue 07 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2003/07/001	journal	July 2003
Multijet matrix elements and shower evolution in hadronic collisions: -jets as a case study Mangano, Michelangelo L.; Moretti, Mauro; Pittau, Roberto Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 632, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00249-3	journal	June 2002
NLO single-top production matched with shower in POWHEG: s - and t -channel contributions Alioli, Simone; Nason, Paolo; Oleari, Carlo Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2009, Issue 09 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/111	journal	September 2009
Single-top Wt-channel production matched with parton showers using the POWHEG method Re, Emanuele The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 71, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1547-z	journal	February 2011
Single-top production in MC@NLO Frixione, Stefano; Laenen, Eric; Motylinski, Patrick Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2006, Issue 03 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/092	journal	March 2006
Standard Model Higgs boson production in association with a top anti-top pair at NLO with parton showering Garzelli, M. V.; Kardos, A.; Papadopoulos, C. G. EPL (Europhysics Letters), Vol. 96, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/11001	journal	September 2011
Helac-Nlo Bevilacqua, G.; Czakon, M.; Garzelli, M. V. Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 184, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2012.10.033	journal	March 2013
t $ \bar{\mathrm{t}} $ W± + t $ \bar{\mathrm{t}} $ Z hadroproduction at NLO accuracy in QCD with Parton Shower and Hadronization effects Garzelli, M. V.; Kardos, A.; Papadopoulos, C. G. Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2012, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2012)056	journal	November 2012
NLO QCD corrections to production in hadron collisions Beenakker, W.; Dittmaier, S.; Krämer, M. Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 653, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00044-0	journal	March 2003
Higgs Radiation Off Top Quarks at the Tevatron and the LHC Beenakker, W.; Dittmaier, S.; Krämer, M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 87, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.201805	journal	October 2001
HDECAY: a program for Higgs boson decays in the Standard Model and its supersymmetric extension Djouadi, A.; Kalinowski, J.; Spira, M. Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 108, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-4655(97)00123-9	journal	January 1998
NNLO computational techniques: The cases and Actis, Stefano; Passarino, Giampiero; Sturm, Christian Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 811, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.11.024	journal	April 2009
Standard model Higgs-boson branching ratios with uncertainties Denner, A.; Heinemeyer, S.; Puljak, I. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 71, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1753-8	journal	September 2011
Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 71, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1577-6	journal	March 2011
Comparative study of various algorithms for the merging of parton showers and matrix elements in hadronic collisions Alwall, J.; Höche, S.; Krauss, F. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 53, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0490-5	journal	December 2007
Single-top hadroproduction in association with a W boson Frixione, Stefano; Laenen, Eric; Motylinski, Patrick Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2008, Issue 07 https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/029	journal	July 2008
Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics Cowan, Glen; Cranmer, Kyle; Gross, Eilam The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 71, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1554-0	journal	February 2011
Confidence level computation for combining searches with small statistics Junk, Thomas Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 434, Issue 2-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00498-2	journal	September 1999
Presentation of search results: the CL _s technique Read, A. L. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 28, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/28/10/313	journal	September 2002

Cited By (21)

Top-quark physics at the Large Hadron Collider Cristinziani, Markus; Mulders, Martijn Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 44, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/44/6/063001	journal	May 2017
Constraining qqtt operators from four-top production: a case for enhanced EFT sensitivity Zhang, Cen Chinese Physics C, Vol. 42, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/42/2/023104	journal	February 2018
Natural Alignment in the Two Higgs Doublet Model Bhupal Dev, P. S.; Pilaftsis, Apostolos Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 873 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/873/1/012008	journal	July 2017
Search for pair production of a new heavy quark that decays into a $W$ boson and a light quark in $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS detector Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. Physical Review D, Vol. 92, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.112007	journal	December 2015
Search for vectorlike charge $2 / 3 T$ quarks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{(} s) = 8 TeV$ Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A. Physical Review D, Vol. 93, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.93.012003	journal	January 2016
Closing the wedge: Search strategies for extended Higgs sectors with heavy flavor final states Gori, Stefania; Kim, Ian-Woo; Shah, Nausheen R. Physical Review D, Vol. 93, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.93.075038	journal	April 2016
Search for pair-produced vectorlike $B$ quarks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A. Physical Review D, Vol. 93, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.93.112009	journal	June 2016
Twin mechanism for baryon and dark matter asymmetries Farina, Marco; Monteux, Angelo; Shin, Chang Sub Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.035017	journal	August 2016
Search for top squarks in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ $p p$ collisions with the ATLAS detector Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B. Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.052009	journal	September 2016
Probing Higgs width and top quark Yukawa coupling from $t \bar{t} H$ and $t \bar{t} t \bar{t}$ productions Cao, Qing-Hong; Chen, Shao-Long; Liu, Yandong Physical Review D, Vol. 95, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.053004	journal	March 2017
Vectorlike fermions and Higgs effective field theory revisited Chen, Chien-Yi; Dawson, S.; Furlan, Elisabetta Physical Review D, Vol. 96, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.015006	journal	July 2017
Direct bounds on heavy toplike quarks with standard and exotic decays Chala, Mikael Physical Review D, Vol. 96, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.015028	journal	July 2017
Search for pair production of heavy vectorlike quarks decaying into hadronic final states in $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS detector Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B. Physical Review D, Vol. 98, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.092005	journal	November 2018
Constraining top quark flavor violation and dipole moments through three and four top quark productions at the LHC Malekhosseini, Malihe; Ghominejad, Mehrdad; Khanpour, Hamzeh Physical Review D, Vol. 98, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.095001	journal	November 2018
Search for pair and single production of vectorlike quarks in final states with at least one $Z$ boson decaying into a pair of electrons or muons in $p p$ collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B. Physical Review D, Vol. 98, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.112010	journal	December 2018
Maximally Symmetric Composite Higgs Models Csáki, Csaba; Ma, Teng; Shu, Jing Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.119.131803	journal	September 2017
Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson and decaying to four b-quarks via two spin-zero particles in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 76, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4418-9	journal	November 2016
Search for standard model production of four top quarks with same-sign and multilepton final states in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13\,\text {TeV} $$ s = 13 TeV Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 78, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5607-5	journal	February 2018
Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a top quark and a $$\mathrm {W} $$ W boson in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13 \,\text {TeV} $$ s = 13 TeV Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 79, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6556-3	journal	January 2019
Gauge-Singlet Vector-Like Fermion Dark Matter, LHC Diphoton Rate, and Direct Detection Gopalakrishna, Shrihari; Mukherjee, Tuhin Subhra Advances in High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017 https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8689270	journal	January 2017
From the Trees to the Forest: A Review of Radiative Neutrino Mass Models Cai, Yi; Herrero García, Juan; Schmidt, Michael A. Frontiers in Physics, Vol. 5 https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2017.00063	journal	December 2017

Similar Records

Search for production of vector-like quark pairs and of four top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal Article · Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) · OSTI ID:1223090

Aad, G.

Search for pair production of heavy vector-like quarks decaying into high-p_T W bosons and top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal Article · Fri Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) · OSTI ID:1223090

Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; +2916 more

Search for pair production of heavy vector-like quarks decaying into high-pT W bosons and top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal Article · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) · OSTI ID:1223090

Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; +2916 more

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Title: Search for production of vector-like quark pairs and of four top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at root 8=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Citation Formats

References (90)

Cited By (21)

Similar Records

Related Subjects