Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a vector-like top quark at √s=13 TeV

• Main Authors: Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A. R., Adam, Wolfgang, Ambrogi, Federico, Asilar, Ece, Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QC Physics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/63056/1/63056_Search%20for%20a%20heavy%20resonance%20decaying%20_article.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/63056/2/63056_Search%20for%20a%20heavy%20resonance%20decaying%20_scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/63056/; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FJHEP09%282017%29053.pdf

A search is presented for massive spin-1 Z0 resonances decaying to a top quark and a heavy vector-like top quark partner T. The search is based on a 2.6 fb−1 sample of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The analysis is optimized for final states in wh...