Search for a heavy top-quark partner in final states with two leptons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

G. Aad , S. Albrand (1) , Q. Buat (1) , B. Clement (1) , J. Collot (1) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (1) , B. Dechenaux (1) , T. Delemontex (1) , P.A. Delsart (1) , M.H. Genest (1) , J.Y. Hostachy (1) , E. Laisne (1) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (1) , A. Lleres (1) , A. Lucotte (1) , F. Malek (1) , J. Stark (1) , X. Sun (1) , B. Trocmé (1) , J. Wang (1) , C. Weydert (1) , C. Biscarat (2) , E. Cogneras (2) , G. Rahal (2) , D. Boumediene (3) , Emmanuel Busato (3) , D. Calvet (3) , S. Calvet (3) , Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (3) , Diane Cinca (3) , J. Donini (3) , R. Febbraro (3) , Ph. Gris (3) , N. Ghodbane (3) , C. Guicheney (3) , H. Liao (3) , D. Pallin (3) , Daniela Paredes Hernández (3) , F. Podlyski (3) , C. Santoni (3) , F. Vazeille (3) , S. Abdel Khalek (4) , H. Abreu (4) , N. Andari (4) , C. Arnault (4) , E. Augé (4) , P. Barrillon (4) , M. Benoit (4) , S. Binet (4) , C. Bourdarios (4) , C. de La Taille (4) , J.B. de Vivie de Regie (4) , L. Duflot (4) , M. Escalier (4) , L. Fayard (4) , D. Fournier (4) , J.-F. Grivaz (4) , S. Henrot-Versillé , J. Hrivnac (4) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (4) , J. Idarraga (4) , M. Kado (4) , N. Lorenzo Martinez (4) , A. Lounis (4) , N. Makovec (4) , P. Matricon (4) , F. Niedercorn (4) , L. Poggioli (4) , P. Puzo (4) , A. Renaud (4) , D. Rousseau (4) , G. Rybkin (4) , J.B. Sauvan (4) , J. Schaarschmidt (4) , A.C. Schaffer (4) , L. Serin (4) , S. Simion (4) , R. Tanaka (4) , M. Teinturier (4) , J.J. Veillet (4) , I. Vukotic (4) , F. Wicek (4) , D. Zerwas (4) , Zhiqing Zhang (4) , F. Vannucci (5) , L. Aperio Bella (6) , B. Aubert (6) , N. Berger (6) , J. Colas (6) , M. Delmastro (6) , L. Di Ciaccio (6) , T.K.O. Doan (6) , S. Elles (6) , C. Goy (6) , T. Hryn'Ova (6) , S. Jézéquel (6) , M. Kataoka (6) , J. Labbe (6) , R. Lafaye (6) , J. Leveque (6) , V.P. Lombardo (6) , N. Massol (6) , P. Perrodo (6) , E. Petit (6) , H. Przysiezniak (6) , E. Richter-Was (6) , G. Sauvage (6) , E. Sauvan (6) , M. Schwoerer (6) , T. Todorov (6) , D. Tsionou (6) , I. Wingerter-Seez (6) , R. Zitoun (6) , S. Aoun (7) , C. P. Bee (7) , C. Bertella (7) , N. Bousson (7) , J. C. Clémens (7) , Y. Coadou (7) , F. Djama (7) , F. Etienne (7) , L. Feligioni (7) , D. Hoffmann (7) , F. Hubaut (7) , E. B. F. G. Knoops (7) , E. Le Guirriec (7) , B. Li (7) , J. Maurer (7) , E. Monnier (7) , J. Odier (7) , P. Pralavorio (7) , A. Rozanov (7) , M. Talby (7) , N. Tannoury (7) , S. Tisserant (7) , J. Toth (7) , F. Touchard (7) , L. Vacavant (7)

1 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
2 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
3 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
4 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
5 APC - Neutrinos
6 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
7 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille

The results of a search for direct pair production of heavy top-quark partners in 4.7 fb-1 of integrated luminosity from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC are reported. Heavy top-quark partners decaying into a top quark and a neutral non-interacting particle are searched for in events with two leptons in the final state. No excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed. Limits are placed on the mass of a supersymmetric scalar top and of a spin-1/2 top-quark partner. A spin-1/2 top-quark partner with a mass between 300 GeV and 480 GeV, decaying to a top quark and a neutral non-interacting particle lighter than 100 GeV, is excluded at 95% confidence level.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]; Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]; Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]

G. Aad, S. Albrand, Q. Buat, B. Clement, J. Collot, et al.. Search for a heavy top-quark partner in final states with two leptons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012, 11, pp.94. ⟨10.1007/JHEP11(2012)094⟩. ⟨in2p3-00733897⟩