Thursday, March 1, 2012

1202.6540 (ATLAS Collaboration)

Search for down-type fourth generation quarks with the ATLAS detector in
events with one lepton and high transverse momentum hadronically decaying W
bosons in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp collisions
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ATLAS Collaboration
This Letter presents a search for pair production of heavy down-type quarks decaying via b'->Wt in the lepton + jets channel, as b'b'->WtWt->bbWWWW->lvbbqqqqqq. In addition to requiring exactly one lepton, large missing transverse momentum and at least six jets, the invariant mass of nearby jet pairs is used to identify high transverse momentum W bosons. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.04 fb^-1 from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector, a heavy down-type quark with mass less than 480 GeV is excluded at the 95% confidence level.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6540

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