Search for resonant top quark plus jet production in ttbar + jets events with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

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) , S. Abdel Khalek (3) , H. Abreu (3) , N. Andari (3) , C. Arnault (3) , E. Augé (3) , P. Barrillon (3) , M. Benoit (3) , S. Binet (3) , C. Bourdarios (3) , C. de La Taille (3) , J.B. de Vivie de Regie (3) , L. Duflot (3) , M. Escalier (3) , L. Fayard (3) , D. Fournier (3) , J.-F. Grivaz (3) , S. Henrot-Versillé (3) , J. Hrivnac (3) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (3) , J. Idarraga (3) , M. Kado (3) , N. Lorenzo Martinez (3) , A. Lounis (3) , N. Makovec (3) , P. Matricon (3) , F. Niedercorn (3) , L. Poggioli (3) , P. Puzo (3) , A. Renaud (3) , D. Rousseau (3) , G. Rybkin (3) , J.B. Sauvan (3) , J. Schaarschmidt (3) , A.C. Schaffer (3) , L. Serin (3) , S. Simion (3) , R. Tanaka (3) , M. Teinturier (3) , J.J. Veillet (3) , I. Vukotic (3) , F. Wicek (3) , D. Zerwas (3) , Z. Zhang (3) , F. Vannucci (4) , D. Boumediene (5) , Emmanuel Busato (5) , D. Calvet (5) , S. Calvet (5) , Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (5) , Diane Cinca (5) , J. Donini (5) , R. Febbraro (5) , N. Ghodbane (5) , Ph. Gris (5) , C. Guicheney (5) , H. Liao (5) , D. Pallin (5) , Daniela Paredes Hernández (5) , F. Podlyski (5) , C. Santoni (5) , F. Vazeille (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 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
4 APC - Neutrinos
5 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
6 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
7 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille

This paper presents a search for a new heavy particle produced in association with a top or antitop quark. Two models in which the new heavy particle is a color singlet or a color triplet are considered, decaying respectively to tbarq or tq, leading to a resonance within the ttbar + jets signature. The full 2011 ATLAS pp collision dataset from the LHC (4.7 fb-1) is used to search for ttbar events produced in association with jets, in which one of the W bosons from the top quarks decays leptonically and the other decays hadronically. The data are consistent with the Standard Model expectation, and a new particle with mass below 430 GeV for both W boson and color triplet models is excluded at 95% confidence level, assuming unit right-handed coupling.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

G. Aad, S. Albrand, Q. Buat, B. Clement, J. Collot, et al.. Search for resonant top quark plus jet production in ttbar + jets events with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. Physical Review D, 2012, 86, pp.091103. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.86.091103⟩. ⟨in2p3-00736994⟩