Speaker
Erich Schmitz
(University of Kansas)
Description
We present a search for the electroweak production of a vector-like top quark partner T of charge + 2/3 in association with a standard model top or bottom quark, using proton-proton collision data at √s=13 TeV collected by the CMS Experiment at the CERN LHC. Our search targets T quarks decaying to a top quark and a Higgs or Z boson in a fully hadronic final state. For a T quark with mass above 1 TeV the daughter top quark and Higgs/Z boson are highly Lorentz-boosted and can appear together as a single hadronic jet. The top quark and Higgs/Z boson are identified using b-tagging and jet substructure techniques, which also acts to suppress the standard model backgrounds.
Primary authors
Alice bean
(Univ of Kansas)
Devdatta Majumder
(University of Kansas)
Erich Schmitz
(University of Kansas)
Graham Wilson
(University of Kansas)
Philip Baringer
(University of Kansas)