Search for Wtb decays in the lepton + jets final state in pp collisions at s = 8TeV

The Authors. Results are presented from a search for the production of a heavy gauge boson W decaying into a top and a bottom quark, using a data set collected by the CMS experiment at s = 8TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb1. Various models of W-boson production are studied by allowing for an arbitrary combination of left-and right-handed couplings. The analysis is based on the detection of events with a lepton (e, ), jets, and missing transverse energy in the final state. No evidence for W-boson production is found and 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching fraction are obtained. For W bosons with purely right-handed couplings, and for those with left-handed couplings assuming no interference effects, the observed 95% confidence level limit is M(W) > 2.05TeV. For W bosons with purely left handed couplings, including interference effects, the observed 95% confidence level limit is M(W) > 1.84TeV. The results presented in this paper are the most stringent limits published to date.

Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., ... Yazgan, E.

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Search for Wtb decays in the lepton + jets final state in pp collisions at s = 8TeV Academic Article