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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.authorATLAS collaboration (3040 authors)
dc.contributor.authorAguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio
dc.contributor.authorAmaral, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorAnjos, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, João
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Nuno Filipe
dc.contributor.authorConde Muiño, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorDo Valle Wemans, André
dc.contributor.authorFiolhais, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Agostinho
dc.contributor.authorGonçalo, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorJorge, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Lourenco
dc.contributor.authorMachado Miguens, Joana
dc.contributor.authorMaio, Amélia
dc.contributor.authorManeira, José
dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Miguel Alfonso
dc.contributor.authorOnofre, António
dc.contributor.authorPalma, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorPina, João Antonio
dc.contributor.authorPinto, Belmiro
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Helena
dc.contributor.authorSaraiva, João
dc.contributor.authorSilva, José
dc.contributor.authorVeloso, Filipe
dc.contributor.authorWolters, Helmut
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-03T19:35:29Z
dc.date.available2019-02-03T19:35:29Z
dc.date.issued2012-04
dc.date.updated2019-02-03T19:35:29Z
dc.description.abstractA 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.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 071801; DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071801
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.071801
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26147
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleSearch for pair production of a new quark that decays to a Z boson and a bottom quark with the ATLAS detector
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
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