Search for W' bosons decaying to a top and a bottom quark at sqrt(s)=13 TeV in the hadronic final state with CMS
S. Chatterjee* on behalf of the CMS Collaboration
Pre-published on:
October 20, 2021
Published on:
November 17, 2021
Abstract
A search is performed for W$^{\prime}$ bosons decaying to a top and a bottom quark in the all-hadronic final state, in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV using data collected by the CMS experiment between 2016 and 2018 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb$^{-1}$. Deep neural network algorithms are used to identify the jet initiated by the bottom quark and the jet containing the decay products of the top quark when the W boson from the top quark decays hadronically. No excess above the estimated standard model background is observed. Upper limits on the production cross sections of W$^{\prime}$ bosons decaying to a top and a bottom quark are set. Both left- and right-handed W$^{\prime}$ bosons with masses below 3.4 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level and the most stringent limits to date on W$^{\prime}$ bosons decaying to a top and a bottom quark in the all-hadronic final state are obtained.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.397.0207
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