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Search for baryon number violation in top-quark decays
Abstract
A search for baryon number violation (BNV) in top-quark decays is performed using pp collisions produced by the LHC at √s = 8 TeV. The top-quark decay considered in this search results in one light lepton (muon or electron), two jets, but no neutrino in the final state. Data used for the analysis were collected by the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb^(−1). The event selection is optimized for top quarks produced in pairs, with one undergoing the BNV decay and the other the standard model hadronic decay to three jets. No significant excess of events over the expected yield from standard model processes is observed. The upper limits at 95% confidence level on the branching fraction of the BNV top-quark decay are calculated to be 0.0016 and 0.0017 for the muon and the electron channels, respectively. Assuming lepton universality, an upper limit of 0.0015 results from the combination of the two channels. These limits are the first that have been obtained on a BNV process involving the top quark.
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© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Received 6 October 2013. Received in revised form 7 February 2014. Accepted 17 February 2014. Available online 20 February 2014. Editor: M. Doser. This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Funded by SCOAP^3. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSF (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, SF0690030s09 and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A.P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; theFonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced by EU, Regional Development Fund; and the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF.Attached Files
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Funding
- BMWF and FWF (Austria)
- FNRS and FWO (Belgium)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- CAPES (Brazil)
- FAPERJ (Brazil)
- FAPESP (Brazil)
- Ministry of Education and Science (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- MoST and NSFC (China)
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- Ministry of Science, Education and Sport (Croatia)
- Research Promotion Foundation (Cyprus)
- Ministry of Education and Research (Estonia)
- SF0690030s09
- European Regional Development Fund (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland)
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- BMBF (Germany)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
- OTKA and NKTH (Hungary)
- DAE and DST (India)
- Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (Iran)
- Science Foundation, Ireland
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- NRF and WCU (Korea)
- Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
- CINVESTAV (Mexico)
- CONACYT (Mexico)
- SEP and UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (New Zealand)
- Atomic Energy Commission (Pakistan)
- MSHE and NSC (Poland)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- JINR (Dubna)
- MON
- RosAtom
- RAS and RFBR (Russia)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia)
- SEIDI and CPAN (Spain)
- Swiss Funding Agencies
- National Science Council (Taipei)
- Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics
- Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (Thailand)
- STAR and NSTDA (Thailand)
- TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey)
- National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Marie Curie Fellowship
- Leventis Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
- Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'índustrie et dans l'Ágriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
- Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
- Council of Science and Industrial Research, India
- Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino)
- HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science
- European Union (EU)
- Regional Development Fund
- Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF
- Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)
- European Research Council (ERC)
- EPLANET
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