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Search for pair production of a new quark that decays to a Z boson and a bottom quark with the ATLAS detector
| dc.contributor.author | ATLAS collaboration (3040 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amaral, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Anjos, Nuno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carvalho, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Castro, Nuno Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Conde Muiño, Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Do Valle Wemans, André | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fiolhais, Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gomes, Agostinho | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gonçalo, Ricardo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jorge, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopes, Lourenco | |
| dc.contributor.author | Machado Miguens, Joana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maio, Amélia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maneira, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, Miguel Alfonso | |
| dc.contributor.author | Onofre, António | |
| dc.contributor.author | Palma, Alberto | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pina, João Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pinto, Belmiro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Santos, Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saraiva, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veloso, Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolters, Helmut | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-03T19:35:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-03T19:35:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-04 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-03T19:35:29Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | A search is reported for the pair production of a new quark, b', with at least one b' decaying to a Z boson and a bottom quark. The data, corresponding to 2.0 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity, were collected from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Using events with a b-tagged jet and a Z boson reconstructed from opposite-charge electrons, the mass distribution of large transverse momentum b' candidates is tested for an enhancement. No evidence for a b' signal is detected in the observed mass distribution, resulting in the exclusion at 95% confidence level of b' quarks with masses m_{b'} < 400 GeV that decay entirely via b' to Z+b. In the case of a vector-like singlet b' mixing solely with the third Standard Model generation, masses m_{b'} < 358 GeV are excluded. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 071801; DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071801 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071801 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26147 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | Search for pair production of a new quark that decays to a Z boson and a bottom quark with the ATLAS detector | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |
