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Search for vector-boson resonances decaying into a top quark and a bottom quark using pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

A search for a new massive charged gauge boson, W′ , is performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The dataset used in this analysis was collected from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 13 TeV, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 . The reconstructed tb invariant mass is used to search for a W′ boson decaying into a top quark and a bottom quark. The result is interpreted in terms of a W′ boson with purely right-handed or left-handed chirality in a mass range of 0.5–6 TeV. Diferent values for the coupling of the W′ boson to the top and bottom quarks are considered, taking into account interference with single-top-quark production in the s-channel. No signifcant deviation from the background prediction is observed. The results are expressed as upper limits on the W′ → tb production cross-section times branching ratio as a function of the W′ -boson mass and in the plane of the coupling vs the W′ -boson mass.

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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0438382

Science, Faculty of; TRIUMF; Non UBC; Physics and Astronomy, Department of

10.1007/JHEP12(2023)073

Faculty; Researcher

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