Searches for W' bosons decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
(2017) Journal of High Energy Physics — Vol. 1708, p. 29 (2017)
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Wertz, Sébastien 
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- Searches are presented for heavy gauge bosons decaying into a top and a bottom quark in data collected by the CMS experiment at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV that correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 and 2.6 inverse femtobarns in the leptonic and hadronic analyses, respectively. Two final states are analyzed, one containing a single electron, or muon, and missing transverse momentum, and the other containing multiple jets and no electrons or muons. No evidence is found for a right-handed W' boson (W'[R]) and the combined analyses exclude at 95% confidence level W'[R] with masses below 2.4 TeV if M[W'[R]] >> M[nu[R]] (mass of the right-handed neutrino), and below 2.6 TeV if M[W'[R]] < M[nu[R]]. The results provide the most stringent limits for right-handed W' bosons in the top and bottom quark decay channel.
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CMS, Bakhshiansohi, H., Bondu, O., Brochet, S., Bruno, G., Caudron, A., de Visscher, S., Delaere, C., Delcourt, M., François, B., Giammanco, A., Jafari, A., Komm, M., Krintiras, G., Lemaitre, V., Magitteri, A., Mertens, A., Musich, M., Piotrzkowski, K., et al. (2017). Searches for W’ bosons decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 1708, 29. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)029 (Original work published 2017)