Search for tt¯ resonances in fully hadronic final states in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration, G Aad, Torsten Åkesson, Simona Bocchetta, Eric Edward Corrigan, Caterina Doglioni, Jannik Geisen, Kristian Gregersen, Eva Brottmann Hansen, Vincent Hedberg, Göran Jarlskog, Edgar Kellermann, Balazs Konya, Else Lytken, Katja Mankinen, Caterina Marcon, Ulf Mjörnmark, Geoffrey André Adrien Mullier, Ruth Pöttgen, Trine PoulsenEleni Skorda, Oxana Smirnova, L Zwalinski

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Abstract

This paper presents a search for new heavy particles decaying into a pair of top quarks using 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search is performed using events consistent with pair production of high-transverse-momentum top quarks and their subsequent decays into the fully hadronic final states. The analysis is optimized for resonances decaying into a tt¯ pair with mass above 1.4 TeV, exploiting a dedicated multivariate technique with jet substructure to identify hadronically decaying top quarks using large-radius jets and evaluating the background expectation from data. No significant deviation from the background prediction is observed. Limits are set on the production cross-section times branching fraction for the new Z′ boson in a topcolor-assisted-technicolor model. The Z′ boson masses below 3.9 and 4.7 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for the decay widths of 1% and 3%, respectively. [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2020, The Author(s).
Original languageEnglish
Article number61
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2020
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Subatomic Physics

Free keywords

  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • Heavy quark production
  • Jet substructure
  • Jets

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