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Search for Production of Heavy Particles Decaying to Top Quarks and Invisible Particles in pp Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 106, no. 19, 191801
Publication date2011
Abstract

We present a search for a new particle T′ decaying to top quark via T′→t+X, where X is an invisible particle. In a data sample with 4.8  fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF II detector at Fermilab in pp collisions with s√=1.96  TeV, we search for pair production of T′ in the lepton+jets channel, pp→tt+X+X→ℓνbqq′b+X+X. We interpret our results primarily in terms of a model where T′ are exotic fourth generation quarks and X are dark matter particles. Current direct and indirect bounds on such exotic quarks restrict their masses to be between 300 and 600  GeV/c2, the dark matter particle mass being anywhere below mT′. The data are consistent with standard model expectations, and we set 95% confidence level limits on the generic production of T′T′→tt+X+X. For the dark matter model we exclude T′ at 95% confidence level up to mT′=360  GeV/c2 for mX≤100  GeV/c2.

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CDF Collaboration. Search for Production of Heavy Particles Decaying to Top Quarks and Invisible Particles in pp Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV. In: Physical review letters, 2011, vol. 106, n° 19, p. 191801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.191801
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