Search for W' boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
Abstract
Results are presented from a search for a W′ boson using a dataset corresponding to 5.0 fb^(−1) of integrated luminosity collected during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at √s = 7Tev. The W′ boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the couplings to fermions are considered, involving both left-handed and right-handed chiral projections of the fermions, as well as an arbitrary mixture of the two. The search is performed in the decay channel W′→ tb, leading to a final state signature with a single electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and jets, at least one of which is identified as a b-jet. A W′ boson that couples to the right-handed (left-handed) chiral projections of the fermions with the same coupling constants as the W is excluded for masses below 1.85 (1.51) TeV at the 95% confidence level. For the first time using LHC data, constraints on the W′ gauge couplings for a set of left- and right-handed coupling combinations have been placed. These results represent a significant improvement over previously published limits.
Additional Information
© 2012 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. © 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. Received 3 August 2012. Received in revised form 2 December 2012. Accepted 4 December 2012. Available online 7 December 2012. Editor: M. Doser. This article is published Open Access at sciencedirect.com. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC machine. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from: BMWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MEYS (Czech Republic); MoER, SF0690030s09 and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MSI (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MSTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA).Attached Files
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- BMWF and FWF (Austria)
- FNRS and FWO (Belgium)
- CNPq (Brazil)
- CAPES (Brazil)
- FAPERJ (Brazil)
- FAPESP (Brazil)
- MES (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- CAS
- MoST (China)
- NSFC (China)
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- MSES (Croatia)
- RPF (Cyprus)
- MEYS (Czech Republic)
- SF0690030s09
- MoER
- ERDF (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland
- MEC (Finland)
- HIP (Finland)
- CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- BMBF (Germany)
- DFG (Germany)
- HGF (Germany)
- GSRT (Greece)
- OTKA and NKTH (Hungary)
- DAE and DST (India)
- IPM (Iran)
- SFI (Ireland)
- INFN (Italy)
- NRF and WCU (Korea)
- LAS (Lithuania)
- CINVESTAV (Mexico)
- CONACyT (Mexico)
- SEP (Mexico)
- UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- MSI (New Zealand)
- PAEC (Pakistan)
- MSHE and NSC (Poland)
- FCT (Portugal)
- JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- MON
- RosAtom
- RAS and RFBR (Russia)
- MSTD (Serbia)
- SEIDI and CPAN (Spain)
- Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
- NSC (Taipei)
- TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey)
- NASU (Ukraine)
- STFC (United Kingdom)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
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