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A search for tt resonances with the ATLAS detector in 2.05 fb −1 of proton-proton collisions at √ s =7 TeV

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • CERN
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • University of Geneva
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • CEA Saclay (Commissariat À l'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives)
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Milan
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Hampton University
  • Yale University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Brandeis University
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • University of Bern
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Boston University
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Texas at Dallas
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Bogazici University
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • SUNY Albany
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • University of Udine
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Glasgow

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Abstract

A search for top quark pair resonances in final states containing at least one electron or muon has been performed with the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The search uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb−1, which was recorded in 2011 at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. No evidence for a resonance is found and limits are set on the production cross-section times branching ratio to tt for narrow and wide resonances. For narrow Z′ bosons, the observed 95 % Bayesian credibility level limits range from 9.3 pb to 0.95 pb for masses in the range of mZ′ = 500 GeV to mZ ′= 1300 GeV. The corresponding excluded mass region for a leptophobic topcolour Z′ boson (Kaluza-Klein gluon excitation in the Randall-Sundrum model) is mZ < 880 GeV (mgKK < 1130 GeV).

Original languageEnglish
Article number2083
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume72
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Jul 2012
Externally publishedYes

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