Search for $W' \to t\bar{b}$ in the lepton plus jets final state in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Tanasijczuk, Andres Jorge;ATLAS;et.al.
(2015) Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics — Vol. 743, p. 235 (2015)

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A search for new charged massive gauge bosons, called W′ , is performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV , using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 . This analysis searches for W′ bosons in the W′→tb¯ decay channel in final states with electrons or muons, using a multivariate method based on boosted decision trees. The search covers masses between 0.5 and 3.0 TeV, for right-handed or left-handed W′ bosons. No significant deviation from the Standard Model expectation is observed and limits are set on the W′→tb¯ cross-section times branching ratio and on the W′ -boson effective couplings as a function of the W′ -boson mass using the CLs procedure. For a left-handed (right-handed) W′ boson, masses below 1.70 (1.92) TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level.
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Tanasijczuk, A. J., ATLAS, & et al. (2015). Search for $W’ \to t\bar{b}$ in the lepton plus jets final state in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 743, 235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.02.051 (Original work published 2015)