Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2012

Combined search for the quarks of a sequential fourth generation

S. Chatrchyan
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Pierre Busson
C. Mironov
P. Paganini
J.-L. Agram
E. Conte
D. Contardo

Résumé

Results are presented from a search for a fourth generation of quarks produced singly or in pairs in a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 inverse femtobarns recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011. A novel strategy has been developed for a combined search for quarks of the up- and down-type in decay channels with at least one isolated muon or electron. Limits on the mass of the fourth-generation quarks and the relevant CKM matrix elements are derived in the context of a simple extension of the standard model with a sequential fourth generation of fermions. The existence of mass-degenerate fourth-generation quarks with masses below 685 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level for minimal off-diagonal mixing between the third- and the fourth-generation quarks. With a mass difference of 25 GeV between the quark masses, the obtained limit on the masses of the fourth-generation quarks shifts by about +/- 20 GeV. This result significantly reduces the allowed parameter space for a fourth generation of fermions.

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in2p3-00730454 , version 1 (10-09-2012)

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S. Chatrchyan, M. Besancon, S. Choudhury, M. Dejardin, D. Denegri, et al.. Combined search for the quarks of a sequential fourth generation. Physical Review D, 2012, 86, pp.112003. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.86.112003⟩. ⟨in2p3-00730454⟩
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