Search for heavy resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark in the lepton+jets final state in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

• Main Authors: The CMS Collaboration (Author), Abercrombie, Daniel Robert (Author), Allen, Branden (Author), Azzolini, Virginia (Author), Barbieri, Richard Alexander (Author), Baty, Austin Alan (Author), Bi, Ran (Author), Brandt, Stephanie Akemi (Author), Busza, Wit (Author), Cali, Ivan Amos (Author), D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria (Author), Demiragli, Zeynep (Author), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Author), Goncharov, Maxim (Author), Hsu, David (Author), Iiyama, Yutaro (Author), Innocenti, Gian Michele (Author), Klute, Markus (Author), Kovalskyi, Dmytro (Author), Lai, Y.S (Author), Lee, Y.-J (Author), Levin, A. (Author), Luckey Jr, P David (Author), Maier, Benedikt (Author), Marini, Andrea Carlo (Author), McGinn, Christopher Francis (Author), Mironov, Camelia Maria (Author), Narayanan, S. (Author), Niu, Xinmei (Author), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Author), Roland, Christof (Author), Roland, Gunther M (Author), Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry (Author), Stephans, George S. F. (Author), Tatar, Kaya (Author), Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru (Author), Wang, J. (Author), Wang, T.W (Author), Wyslouch, Boleslaw (Author)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV, 2022-08-17T20:39:39Z.
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 © 2017 The Author A search is presented for narrow heavy resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark using data collected by the CMS experiment at s=13TeV in 2016. The data set analyzed corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb−1. Final states that include a single lepton (e, μ), multiple jets, and missing transverse momentum are analyzed. No evidence is found for the production of a W'boson, and the production of right-handed W'bosons is excluded at 95% confidence level for masses up to 3.6TeV depending on the scenario considered. Exclusion limits for W'bosons are also presented as a function of their coupling strength to left- and right-handed fermions. These limits on a W'boson decaying via a top and a bottom quark are the most stringent published to date.