Search for single production of a vector-like quark via a heavy gluon in the $4b$ final state with the ATLAS detector in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV

G. Aad 1 Z. Barnovska 2 N. Berger 2 M. Delmastro 2 L. Di Ciaccio 2 S. Elles 2 K. Grevtsov 2 T. Hryn’ova 2 S. Jézéquel 2 I. Koletsou 2 R. Lafaye 2 Jérémy Lévêque 2 P. Mastrandea 2 G. Sauvage 2 E. Sauvan 2 O. Simard 2 T. Todorov 2 I. Wingerter-Seez 2 E. Yatsenko 2 D. Boumediene 3 E. Busato 3 D. Calvet 3 S. Calvet 3 J. Donini 3 Ph. Gris 3 H. Liao 3 R. Madar 3 D. Pallin 3 S.M. Romano Saez 3 C. Santoni 3 D. Simon 3 F. Vazeille 3 S. Albrand 4 S. Berlendis 4 C. Camincher 4 J. Collot 4 S. Crépé-Renaudin 4 P.A. Delsart 4 C. Gabaldon 4 M.H. Genest 4 J.Y. Hostachy 4 F. Ledroit-Guillon 4 A. Lleres 4 A. Lucotte 4 F. Malek 4 E. Petit 4 J. Stark 4 B. Trocmé 4 M. Wu 4 L. Alio 1 M. Barbero 1 A. Calandri T.P. Calvet 1 Y. Coadou 1 C. Diaconu 1 S. Diglio 1 F. Djama 1 V. Ellajosyula 1 L. Feligioni 1 J. Gao 1 A. Hadef 1 G.D. Hallewell 1 F. Hubaut 1 S.J. Kahn 1 E. B. F. G. Knoops 1 E. Le Guirriec 1 J. Liu K. Liu 1 D. Madaffari 1 K. Mochizuki 1 E. Monnier 1 S. Muanza 1 E. Nagy 1 P. Pralavorio 1 Y. Rodina 1 A. Rozanov 1 M. Talby 1 T. Theveneaux-Pelzer 1 R.E. Ticse Torres 1 E. Tiouchichine 1 S. Tisserant 1 J. Toth 1 F. Touchard 1 L. Vacavant 1 Chen Wang 1 M.K. Ayoub 5 A. Bassalat 5 S. Binet 5 C. Becot 5 C. Bourdarios 5 J.B. de Vivie De Regie 5 D. Delgove 5 L. Duflot 5 M. Escalier 5 L. Fayard 5 D. Fournier 5 E.L. Gkougkousis 5 J.-F. Grivaz 5 T. Guillemin 5 F. Hariri 5 S. Henrot-Versille 5 J. Hrivnac 5 L. Iconomidou-Fayard 5 M. Kado 5 A. Lounis 5 N. Makovec 5 N. Morange 5 C. Nellist 5 P. Petroff 5 L. Poggioli 5 P. Puzo 5 A. Renaud 5 G. Rybkin 5 D. Rousseau 5 A.C. Schaffer 5 L. Serin 5 E. Scifo 5 S. Simion 5 R. Tanaka D. Zerwas 5 Zhongkai Zhang 5 Y. Zhao 5
1 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
2 LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
3 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
4 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
5 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
Abstract : A search is performed for the process $pp \to G^* \to B_H\bar b/\bar B_H b \to H b \bar b \to b\bar bb\bar b$, predicted in composite Higgs scenarios, where $G^*$ is a heavy colour octet vector resonance and $B_H$ a vector-like quark of charge $-1/3$. The data were obtained from $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb$^{-1}$, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The largest background, multijet production, is estimated using a data-driven method. No significant excess of events with respect to Standard Model predictions is observed, and upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio are set. Comparisons to the predictions from a specific benchmark model are made, resulting in lower mass limits in the two-dimensional mass plane of $m_{G^*}$ vs. $m_{B_H}$.
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G. Aad, Z. Barnovska, N. Berger, M. Delmastro, L. Di Ciaccio, et al.. Search for single production of a vector-like quark via a heavy gluon in the $4b$ final state with the ATLAS detector in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV. Physics Letters B, Elsevier, 2016, 758, pp.249-268. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2016.04.061⟩. ⟨in2p3-01290224⟩

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