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Search for Heavy Bottomlike Quarks Decaying to an Electron or Muon and Jets in pp Collisions at s√=1.96  TeV

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 106, no. 14, 141803
Publication date2011
Abstract

We report the most sensitive direct search for pair production of fourth-generation bottomlike chiral quarks (b′) each decaying promptly to tW. We search for an excess of events with an electron or muon, at least five jets (one identified as due to a b or c quark), and an imbalance of transverse momentum by using data from pp collisions collected by the CDF II detector at Fermilab with an integrated luminosity of 4.8  fb−1. We observe events consistent with background expectation, calculate upper limits on the b′ pair-production cross section (σbb′≲30  fb for mb′>375  GeV/c2), and exclude mb′<372  GeV/c2 at 95% confidence level assuming a 100% branching ratio of b′ to tW.

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CDF Collaboration. Search for Heavy Bottomlike Quarks Decaying to an Electron or Muon and Jets in pp Collisions at s√=1.96  TeV. In: Physical review letters, 2011, vol. 106, n° 14, p. 141803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.141803
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