Search for heavy neutrinos and third-generation leptoquarks in hadronic states of two τ leptons and two jets in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
A search for new particles has been conducted using events with two high transverse momentum τ leptons that decay hadronically and at least two energetic jets. The analysis is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 a...
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Springer Nature
2019
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| Summary: | A search for new particles has been conducted using events with two high
transverse momentum τ leptons that decay hadronically and at least two energetic jets. The
analysis is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at √
s = 13 TeV, collected
by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity
of 35.9 fb−1
. The observed data are consistent with standard model expectations. The
results are interpreted in the context of two physics models. The first model involves righthanded charged bosons, WR, that decay to heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos, N`
(` = e, µ, τ ), arising in a left-right symmetric extension of the standard model. The model
considers that Ne and Nµ are too heavy to be detected at the LHC. Assuming that the
Nτ mass is half of the WR mass, masses of the WR boson below 3.50 TeV are excluded
at 95% confidence level. Exclusion limits are also presented considering different scenarios
for the mass ratio between Nτ and WR, as a function of WR mass. In the second model,
pair production of third-generation scalar leptoquarks that decay into τ τbb is considered,
resulting in an observed exclusion region with leptoquark masses below 1.02 TeV, assuming
a 100% branching fraction for the leptoquark decay to a τ lepton and a bottom quark.
These results represent the most stringent limits to date on these models. |
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