Searches for new heavy quarks in ATLAS

2018/08/14 by Nikiforos Nikiforou, N. Nikiforou, Nikiforou, Nikiforos
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1808.04695

53rd Rencontres de Moriond EW 2018

arxiv created 2018/08/14 · openalex publication_date 2018/08/14 · arxiv updated 2018/08/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

A search for new heavy quarks focusing on recent vector-like quark searches with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider is presented. Two recent searches targeting the pair production of type vector-like quarks are described. The first search is sensitive to vector-like up-type quark (T) decays to a t quark and either a Standard Model Higgs boson or a Z boson. The second search is primarily sensitive to T decays to W boson and a b quark. Additionally, the results can be interpreted for alternative VLQ decays.

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