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Search for heavy vector-like quarks coupling to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
| dc.contributor.author | ATLAS collaboration (3019 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 | Soares, Mara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veloso, Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolters, Helmut | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-03T18:36:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-03T18:36:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-07-16 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-03T18:36:49Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This letter presents a search for singly produced vector-like quarks, Q, coupling to light quarks, q. The search is sensitive to both charged current (CC) and neutral current (NC) processes, p p --> Q q --> W q q' and p p --> Q q --> Z q q' with a leptonic decay of the vector gauge boson. In 1.04/fb of data taken in 2011 by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, no evidence of such heavy vector-like quarks is observed above the expected Standard Model background. Limits on the heavy vector-like quark production cross section times branching ratio as a function of mass m_Q are obtained. For a coupling kappa_(qQ) = v/m_Q, where v is the Higgs vacuum expectation value, 95% C.L. lower limits on the mass of a vector-like quark are set at 900 GeV and 760 GeV from CC and NC processes, respectively. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Lett. B712 (2012) 22-39; DOI 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.082 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.082 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26077 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | Search for heavy vector-like quarks coupling to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |