Search for single production of a heavy vector-like T quark decaying to a Higgs boson and a top quark with a lepton and jets in the final state

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Received3December2016

Receivedinrevisedform17April2017 Accepted6May2017

Availableonline11May2017 Editor: M.Doser Keywords: CMS B2G VLQ Tprime Higgstagging Physics

A search for single production of vector-like top quark partners (T) decaying into a Higgs boson and a top quark is performed using data from pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb−1_{. The} top quark decay includes an electron or a muon while the Higgs boson decays into a pair of b quarks. No significant excess over standard model backgrounds is observed. Exclusion limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching fraction are derived in the T quark mass range 700 to 1800 GeV. For a mass of 1000 GeV, values of the product of the production cross section and the branching fraction greater than 0.8 and 0.7 pb are excluded at 95% confidence level, assuming left- and right-handed coupling of the T quark to standard model particles, respectively. This is the first analysis setting exclusion limits on the cross section of singly produced vector-like T quarks at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.

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1. Introduction

Overthepastdecadesseveraltheoreticalmodelshavebeen for-mulated trying to give new insights into electroweak symmetry breakingandthemechanismsthatstabilisethemassoftheHiggs boson.Manyofthesemodelspredicttheexistenceofheavy vector-like quarks.Examples are littleHiggs models [1–3], models with extradimensions[4,5],andcompositeHiggsbosonmodels[6–10]. Thedistinctiveproperty ofvector-like quarksisthattheir left-andright-handed components transformin the same wayunder the electroweaksymmetry group SU

(

2

)

L

×

U

(

1

)

Y ofthe standard

model(SM).Asaconsequence,vector-likequarkscanobtainmass through direct mass terms in the Lagrangian of the form m

ψ ψ

, unlike the SM chiral quarks,which obtain mass through Yukawa coupling.

ThediscoveryofaHiggsbosonbytheATLAS[11]andCMS[12, 13]Collaborations andtheelectroweakfitswithin theframework oftheSM[14] stronglydisfavourtheexistenceofafourth gener-ationofchiralfermions.Giventhelimitedimpactthat vector-like quarkshaveonthepropertiesoftheSMHiggsboson,theyarenot similarlyconstrained[15].

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This letter presents the results of the first search for singly produced vector-like top quark partnerswith charge

+

2

/

3 (T) at a centre-of-mass energyof

√

s

=

13 TeV. Single productionis of particular interest, since its rate dominates over the rateof pair productionatlargequarkmasses.Manyofthemodels mentioned abovepredict thattheTquark willpredominantlydecayto third-generation SM quarks via three channels: tH, tZ, and bW [15]. Searches for T quarks have been performed by the ATLAS and CMSCollaborationssettinglowerlimitsontheTquarkmass rang-ing from 715 to 950 GeV for various T quark branching frac-tions[16–22].

Whilemostofthepastsearchesconsideredpairproductionof theTquarksviathestronginteraction,thesingleproductionmode where the T quark is produced via the weak interaction has re-centlybeen investigatedby theATLAS Collaboration[16,19,20]at 8 TeV, andis targetedin thisletter. The strength ofthe Tquark coupling to electroweak bosons has an effect both on the cross section and the width of the T quark [23]. There are no a pri-oriconstraintsontheelectroweakTquarkcoupling.Therefore,not only thegeneral couplingto theelectroweak sectorbut the cou-plings of the T quark to bW, tZ, and tH can also take arbitrary values. The present analysis targets decays of the T quark into a Higgs boson and a top quark. It will be sensitive to the exis-tenceofaTquarkonlyifsufficientlylargecouplingstobW ortZ arepresentaswell,sincetheTquarkproductionthroughaHiggs

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Fig. 1. Feynmandiagramoftheproductionanddecaymechanismsofavector-likeT quark,astargetedinthisanalysis.

boson isstronglysuppressed. Anexample ofa Feynman diagram forthisprocessisshownin

Fig. 1

.

Theanalysis isperformedon theproton–protoncollision data collectedduring2015bytheCMSexperimentattheCERNLHCat

√

s

=

13 TeV. The search is optimised fordecays of the Tquark intoaHiggsbosonandatopquark,wherethetopquarkdecay in-cludesalepton(electronormuon)andtheHiggsbosonisrequired todecayintob quarks.ForaTquark massinthe TeVrange,the Higgsboson andthe top quark obtain large Lorentz boosts lead-ing to mergedjets andnonisolated leptons inthe final state. Jet substructureanalysisincombinationwithalgorithmsforthe iden-tificationofbquarkjets(btagging)canefficientlyidentifyboosted decaysof theHiggs boson intob quark pairs [22].An additional distinctive feature of the signal is the presence of a jet in the regions close to the beam pipe, a so-called forwardjet. This jet results from the light-flavour quark that is produced in associa-tionwiththeTquark.Backgroundprocessesduetotopquarkpair productionaredominant,followedbyW

+

jetsandquantum chro-modynamics(QCD)multijetprocesses.

Foreveryevent,aTquark candidatefour-momentumis recon-structed,withmassMT.Eventsare selectedbyimposing

require-mentsontheTquarkcandidateandotherattributesoftheevent. The MT variable is usedas the final discriminant ina combined

signalplusbackgroundfittothedata.Theshapeofthetotal back-groundisestimatedfromasignal-depletedregionintherecorded data.

2. TheCMSdetector

The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconduct-ingsolenoidof 6 minternal diameter,providing amagnetic field of3.8 T.Withinthesolenoidvolumeare asilicon pixelandstrip tracker,aleadtungstatecrystalelectromagneticcalorimeter(ECAL), andabrassandscintillatorhadroncalorimeter(HCAL),each com-posedofa barreland twoendcap sections.Forwardcalorimeters extendthecoverage providedby thebarrelandendcapdetectors to regions close to the beampipe. Muonsare measured in gas-ionisationdetectorsembeddedinthesteelflux-returnyokeoutside thesolenoid. AmoredetaileddescriptionoftheCMSdetector, to-gether with a definition of the coordinate system used and the relevantkinematicvariables,canbefoundinRef.[24].

Aparticle-flow(PF)algorithm[25,26]isusedtocombine infor-mationfromallCMSsubdetectorsinordertoreconstructand iden-tify individual particles in the event: photons, electrons, muons, andchargedandneutralhadrons.Theenergyofphotonsisdirectly obtained from the ECAL measurement. The energy of electrons isdetermined froma combinationof the electronmomentum at theprimaryinteraction vertexdetermined bythe tracker,the en-ergyofthecorrespondingECALcluster,andtheenergysumofall bremsstrahlungphotonsspatiallycompatiblewithoriginatingfrom

the electron track.The momentum resolution forelectrons with transverse momentum pT

≈

45 GeV andabove fromZ

→

ee

de-cays ranges from 1.7% for non-showering electrons in the barrel regionto4.5%forshoweringelectronsintheendcaps[27].Muons aremeasuredinthepseudorapidityrange

|

η

|

<

2

.

4 withdetection planes made using three technologies: drift tubes, cathode strip chambers,andresistive-platechambers.Matchingmuonstotracks measured inthesilicontrackerresults inarelative pT resolution

of1.2–2.0%formuonswith20

<

pT

<

100 GeV in thebarreland

better than6% in theendcaps. The pT resolution inthebarrel is

better than10%formuonswith pT up to1 TeV

[28]

. Theenergy

ofchargedhadronsisdeterminedfromacombinationoftheir mo-mentum measured in the trackerandthe matching ofECAL and HCAL energydeposits,corrected forthe response functionof the calorimeters to hadronic showers. Finally, the energy of neutral hadrons is obtained from the corresponding corrected ECAL and HCALenergy.

Jetsarereconstructedfromtheindividualparticlesidentifiedby thePFeventalgorithm,clusteredbytheanti-kt algorithm[29,30]. Twodifferentjetsizesareusedindependently:jetswithasize pa-rameter of 0.4 (“AK4 jets”) and 0.8 (“AK8 jets”). Jet momentum isdeterminedasthevectorsumofthechargedparticlemomenta in thejet that are identified asoriginatingfrom the primary in-teractionvertex,andtheneutralparticlemomenta.Anarea-based correctionisappliedtojetenergiestotakeintoaccountthe contri-butionfromadditionalproton–protoninteractionswithinthesame or adjacent bunch crossings (“pileup”) [31]. The energy of a jet isfound fromsimulation tobe within 5–10%ofthe truejet mo-mentumatparticlelevelovertheentirepT spectrumanddetector

acceptance.Jetenergycorrectionsarederivedfromsimulation,and are confirmed with in situ measurements of the energy balance indijetandphoton

+

jetevents[32].Asmearingofthejetenergy isappliedtosimulatedeventstomimicdetectorresolutioneffects observedindata.Fortheidentificationofbjets,thecombined sec-ondaryvertexbtaggingalgorithmisused[33].Thealgorithmuses informationfromsecondarybhadrondecayverticestodistinguish bjetsfromotherjetflavours.Thejetenergyresolutionistypically 15% at10 GeV, 8% at 100 GeV,and 4% at1 TeV. Jetsare recon-structedup to

|

η

|

=

5 while btaggingis restrictedby thetracker acceptanceto

|

η

|

<

2

.

4.

The missing transverse momentum vector



pmiss_T is defined as thenegative vectorsumofthe pT ofallPFparticlecandidates in

anevent.ItsmagnitudeisreferredtoasEmiss_T .

3. Dataandsimulatedsamples

Events in the electron channel are selected using an electron trigger,whichrequiresanelectronwithpT

>

45 GeV andthe

addi-tionalpresenceofatleasttwojets,withpT

>

200 GeV and50 GeV,

respectively forthe jetswiththe highestandsecond highest pT.

Eventsinthemuonchannelarecollectedwithasingle-muon trig-ger,requiringthepresenceofamuoncandidatewithpT

>

45 GeV

and

|

η

|

<

2

.

1.Themuon triggerdoesnotrequireajet.Neither of the triggers places any requirement on the isolation of the lep-tons. Ifan eventis selected by both the electron andthe muon trigger,whichhappensalmostexclusivelyintopquarkpairevents containing an electron and a muon, it is assigned to the muon channel.Thedatacollectedwiththemuontriggercorrespondtoa luminosity of

L

=

2

.

3 fb−1,while theelectron trigger providesa luminosity

L

=

2

.

2 fb−1.

Signalsamplesaregeneratedusing madgraph5_amc@nlo 2.2.2

[34]atleadingorder(LO)QCDaccuracy.Thecrosssectionto pro-duce a heavy Tquark decayingto top quark andHiggs boson in association witha bottomortop quark issetto 1 pb unless in-dicated differently.Signal massesare simulatedbetween700and

1800 GeVinsteps of100 GeV,assumingafixedTquarkwidthof 10 GeV.Thiswidthcorrespondstoanarrowwidthapproximation, meaningthattheexperimentalresolutionismuchlargerthanthe width used in generatingthe samples. Generation of both the T quarkanditsantiquarkareincluded,withthepositivecharge hav-ingahigheroccurrencebecauseofthelargerdensityofpositively chargedu quarks in the proton.Only the left- (right-) handed T quarkchiralitiesinassociationwithabottom(top)quark are con-sidered,asonlythoseareallowedinthesinglet(doublet)scenario ofthesimplestSimplifiedModel[23].Left- andright-handed pro-ductionoftheTquarkaresimulatedinseparatesamples.

Background events from top quark pair production and elec-troweak production ofa single top quark in the tW-channel are simulated at next-to-leading order (NLO) with the powheg 2.0 generator [35–38]. The madgraph5_amc@nlo at NLO accuracy is used to generate samples of single top quarks in the s- and t-channels.ThegenerationoftheW

+

jetsandZ

+

jetseventsis per-formed at LO with the madgraph5_amc@nlo, with up to four partons included in the matrix element calculations, matched to partonshowersusingtheso-calledMLMscheme[39].Allsamples areinterfacedwith pythia 8.212[40,41],tuneCUETP8M1[42]for thedescriptionofhadronisationandfragmentation.TheQCD mul-tijetbackgroundeventsaregeneratedwith pythia forbothmatrix elementandshoweringdescriptions.

AllsamplesaregeneratedusingNNPDF 3.0[43]parton distribu-tionfunctions(PDFs)eitheratLOoratNLO,tomatchtheprecision ofthe matrix element calculation. The effects ofpileup are sim-ulated inall samples by adding simulatedminimum bias events to thehard scatteringprocess, accordingto a distributionhaving anaveragemultiplicity of11collisions perbunchcrossing,as ob-servedindata.

Allevents areprocessed througha full simulationofthe CMS detectorusing Geant4[44,45].

4. Eventreconstructionandselection

Primary vertices are reconstructed using a deterministic an-nealing filtering algorithm [46]. The leading vertex of the event isdefinedastheonewiththelargestsumofsquared pT of

asso-ciatedtracks.Itspositionisreconstructedusinganadaptivevertex fit[47]andisrequiredtobewithin24 cm inthez directionand 2 cm inthex– y planeofthenominalinteractionpoint.

Events are required to have at least one lepton. For large T quark masses, the top quark from the T

→

tH decay has a sig-nificant Lorentz boost causing its products to be approximately collinear. Thus as the lepton is not isolated from the b quark jet (“b jet”), no conventional isolation requirement (i.e. requiring the energy deposited in a cone around the lepton to be small) is applied. In orderto suppressQCD multijet events witha lep-ton(electronormuon)containedwithinan AK4jet,theselection criteria



R

(,

j

)

>

0

.

4 or prel

T

(,

j

)

>

40 GeV are applied, where



indicates the lepton and j indicates the AK4 jet with lowest angular separation from the lepton. The angular distance is de-finedas



R

=



(

η

)

2

_{+ (φ)}

2_,where

_φ

₍

_

_η

_{) isthedifference}

inazimuthal angle(pseudorapidity)betweentheAK4jet andthe lepton, and prel_T is theprojection ofthe three-momentum ofthe lepton onto a plane perpendicular to the jet axis.In addition to thisselection,electrons(muons) musthave pT

>

50 (47) GeVand

|

η

|

<

2

.

5

(

2

.

1

)

,tofallwithinaregionwherethetriggerefficiencyis constant.Inthecaseofmorethanonereconstructedleptoninthe givenchannel,onlytheleptonwiththehighest pT isusedinthe

evaluationofphysicsquantitiesneededforthisanalysisandshown intheplotsbelow. Thelepton isolationandtriggerselection effi-cienciesaremeasuredinthedataandsimulationasafunctionof

η

andpT oftheleptonandarefoundtoagreewithintheir

uncer-tainties.

AllAK4jetsarerequiredtohavepT

>

30 GeV.Ifaselected

lep-ton isfound within acone of



R

(

j

,

)

<

0

.

4 aroundthe jetaxis, theleptonfour-momentumissubtractedfromtheuncorrectedjet four-momentum andall jet energycorrectionsare applied there-after. AK4 jets with

|

η

|

>

2

.

4 are defined as “forward jets”. An event must have atleast two AK4 jets. The leading (subleading) AK4 jet pT is required to exceed 250 (70) GeV in the electron

channel and100 (50) GeVin themuon channel. The different pT

thresholds forthetwo channelsare dueto thetighter criteriaof the electron trigger, which selects events with two high-pT jets

(Section3).

SincethedecayofaheavyTquarkwouldproducehigh-energy final-stateparticles,alleventsarerequiredtohave ST

>

400 GeV,

where ST isdefined asthe scalar sumover EmissT ,the pT of the

leptonandthetransversemomentaofall selectedAK4jetsinthe event.

TheAK8jetsarerequiredtohave pT

>

200 GeV and

|

η

|

<

2

.

4.

The modifiedmassdroptaggeralgorithm[48],alsoknownasthe “soft-drop”algorithmwithangularexponent

β

=

0,softthreshold

zcut

<

0

.

1, andcharacteristic radius R0

=

0

.

8 [49], is used to

re-move soft, wide-angle radiationfrom thejet. Subjets ofAK8jets are identified in the last reclusteringstep of the soft-drop algo-rithm.Thesoft-dropjetmassscaleandresolutionhavebeen esti-mated usingat

¯

t controlregion.This controlregion isdefinedby the baseline selection (see below) andadditionallyrequiring two b-tagged AK4jetsaswell asthe N-subjettinessratio

τ

2

/

τ

1 to be

smaller than 0.4 [50,51] for the Higgs boson candidate (see be-low).Themassscaleisfoundtobecompatiblebetweendataand simulationwithinuncertainties.Adegradationofthejetmass res-olutionof10%isappliedinthesimulationtomatchtheresolution foundinthedata.

Fortheidentificationofbjets,thecombinedsecondaryvertex b taggingalgorithm isused.In thisanalysis, itis onlyapplied to the final two soft-drop subjetsof AK8jets. Aworking pointthat typically yields b tagging efficiencies of approximately 80% and misidentification rates from light-flavour jets of about 10% in t

¯

t events[33] ischosen. Theb taggingofsubjetsresultsina better performancecomparedtothebtaggingofAK4jetsint

¯

t events, re-ducing themisidentificationrateattheworkingpointby afactor ofapproximatelytwo.

In order to identify decays of the boosted Higgs boson to b quark pairs (H tagging) [22], the soft-drop mass of the jet, MH,

is requiredto be within 90

<

MH

<

160 GeV. At leastone Higgs

boson candidate is required to be presentand to havean angu-larseparationof



R

(

H

,

)

>

1

.

0 fromthelepton.Thenumberofb taggedsubjetsoftheHiggsbosoncandidateisusedtodefine the signalandbackgroundcontrolregions.

Toreconstructthetopquark,itsdecayintoabottomquarkand aW boson,withtheW bosonsubsequentlydecayingintoamuon orelectronandaneutrino,isassumed.Usingthex and y

compo-nentsof

−

→

pmiss_T ,theleptonfour-momentum,andthenominalmass oftheW boson(80.4 GeV),

[52]

the z componentoftheneutrino momentum isreconstructed by solving a quadraticequation, re-sulting inup to two solutions. Ifa complexsolution isobtained, only thereal partisused.Combining thefour-momenta ofthese neutrinohypothesesandthelepton,uptotwoW bosoncandidates are obtained. Each W bosoncandidate ispaired to every central AK4jet intheevent, givinganumberofreconstruction hypothe-sesforthetopquark.Inordertoaccommodatefinal-stateradiation from the top quark, further top quark reconstruction hypotheses arefound bytheadditionofone moreAK4jet,suchthatone top quark candidateis establishedforevery single AK4jet andevery

Fig. 2. Distributionsofkinematicvariablesafterbaselineselection.ElectronandmuonpTdistributionsaredepictedintheupper-leftandupper-rightpanels.Thelower-left

panelshowsSTintheelectronchannelwhilethesoft-dropmassoftheHiggsbosoncandidateinthemuonchannelisdepictedinthelowerright.Thedifferentbackground

contributionsareshownusingfullhistogramswhiletheopenhistogramsaresignalyieldsandthedataareshownassolidcircles.Thehatchedbandsrepresentthestatistical andsystematicuncertaintiesofthesimulatedeventsamples.ThesystematicuncertaintiesincludethosediscussedinSection6,excepttheforwardjetuncertainty.Signal crosssectionsareenhancedto20 pb.

Fig. 3. Mass(left)andpT(right)distributionsofthereconstructedtopquarkcandidateinthemuonchannelafterthebaselineselection.Thedifferentbackgroundcontributions

areshownusingfullhistogramswhiletheopenhistogramsaresignalyieldsandthedataareshownassolidcircles.Thehatchedbandsrepresentthestatisticalandsystematic uncertaintiesofthesimulatedeventsamples.ThesystematicuncertaintiesincludethosediscussedinSection6,excepttheforwardjetuncertainty.Signalcrosssectionsare enhancedto20 pb.

Table 1

Eventselectioncriteria:requirednumberofbtaggedsubjetsfortheHiggsbosoncandidate,andnumberofforwardjets.

Region Signal region Control region Validation region A Validation region B

Subjet b tags (H candidate) exactly 2 exactly 1 exactly 0 exactly 0

Fig. 4. Vector-likeTquarkcandidatemassinthesignalregionfortheelectron(left)andmuon(right)channels.Thedifferentbackgroundcontributionsareshownusingfull histogramswhiletheopenhistogramsaresignalyieldsandthedataareshownassolidcircles.Thehatchedbandsrepresentthestatisticalandsystematicuncertaintiesof thesimulatedeventsamples.ThesystematicuncertaintiesincludethosediscussedinSection6.

Table 2

NumberofselectedeventsNsel andselectionefficiencysel forthesignalregionincludingbothstatistical(stat)andsystematic(sys)uncertainties.Forthe

background,thepost-fitvalue(asdescribedinSections5and7)isquoted.Theleft- (right-)handedTquarkproductioninassociationwithabottom(top)quark isdenotedbyasubscriptlh(rh)andfollowingb(t).Allsignalsamplesarenormalizedtoacrosssectionof1 pb,i.e.theproductofthebranchingfractionsfor thetopquarkdecayingtofinalstatesincludingalepton,andtheHiggsbosondecayingtobottomquarks,amountingtoapproximately8%,isincludedinthe signalselectionefficiency.

Electron channel Muon channel

Nsel±stat±sys sel(%) Nsel±stat±sys sel(%)

Tlh(700) b 1.2±1.1±0.3 0.05 6.0±2.4±1.2 0.26 Tlh(1200) b 14.4±0.9±2.6 0.65 22.8±1.1±3.9 0.98 Tlh(1700) b 15.3±0.9±2.7 0.69 22.9±1.1±3.9 0.99 Trh(700) t 6.4±2.5±1.1 0.29 14.2±3.8±2.3 0.61 Trh(1200) t 20.3±1.0±3.4 0.91 33.6±1.3±5.4 1.45 Trh(1700) t 21.7±1.1±3.5 0.98 34.6±1.4±5.7 1.49

Nsel±stat±fit Nsel±stat±fit

Background (post-fit) 34.8±1.4±4.2 133±3±16

Data 35 134

possiblecombinationoftwoAK4jets.Thebtagginginformationis notusedinthetopquarkreconstruction.

TopquarkandHiggsbosoncandidatesarecombinedintopairs. CombinationsarerejectedifanyAK4jet( jt)ofthetopquark

can-didateoverlapswiththeHiggsbosoncandidatewithin



R

(

jt

,

H

)

<

1

.

0. This requirementensures that there is nooverlap ordouble countingofjetsfromthetwojetcollectionswithjetsizes0.4and 0.8.The pairofcandidatesyieldingthesmallest

χ

2 _valueisused

inthefollowinganalysis,wherethe

χ

2 _{functionisdefinedas}

fol-lows:

χ

2

=



MH,MC

−

MH

σ

MH,MC



2

+



Mt,MC

−

Mt

σ

Mt,MC



2

+





R

(

t

,

H

)

MC

− 

R

(

t

,

H

)

σ

R,MC



2

.

Here, M denotes the massof a candidate,and the Hand t sub-scripts stand for the Higgs boson and top quark candidates, re-spectively. The “MC”subscript denotes that a quantity is derived fromthesignalsimulation,usingthecorrectpairingofthe recon-structed objects based on Monte Carlo information.Other quan-tities are obtained from the pair of top quark and Higgs boson candidates.

After eventreconstruction, the selection is further refined by requiring a large separation of



R

(

t

,

H

)

>

2

.

0 between the top quark andHiggsboson candidates.Thetop quarkcandidatemust havepT

>

100 GeV.

The selection criteriadescribed above define the“baseline se-lection”.Distributionsofsomerelevantvariablesafterthebaseline selection are shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The background contribu-tionsareestimatedfromsimulatedevents.Thehypotheticalsignal isscaled toacrosssection of20pbasindicatedinthelegendof thefigure.Thesimulatedbackgroundeventsanddataarefoundto beinagreement.

After thebaseline selection,two eventcategoriesare defined. Thesignalregionisusedforsignalextractionandisdefinedby re-quiring that both soft-drop subjets of theHiggs boson candidate are btaggedandthat thereisatleastoneforwardjet. The “con-trolregion”forbackgroundestimationisdefinedbyrequiringthe absenceofforwardjetsandthat exactlyoneofthesoft-drop sub-jets of the Higgs boson candidates is b tagged. In addition, two validationregions withzerosubjetb-tags,“region A”and“region B”, are defined. These validation regions are used to cross-check thebackgroundestimationmethodasdescribedinSection 5.The eventselectioncriteriaofallregionsaresummarisedin

Table 1

.

The T quark candidate is reconstructed from the sum of the Higgsbosonandthetopquarkcandidatefour-momenta.TheMTis

usedasthediscriminatingvariableinthelimitsettingprocedure.

Fig. 4showsthesimulatedsignalandbackgrounddistributionsof

MT inthe signalregion.In theelectron(muon)channel 35(134)

dataeventsareselected,assummarisedin

Table 2

alongwiththe eventyieldsandselectionefficienciesforthreeofthesignal sam-ples.Thesignalselectionefficiencyisdepictedasafunctionofthe generatedTquarkmassin

Fig. 5

.Thedenominatoroftheefficiency

Fig. 5. Selectionefficiencyselforthesignal,i.e.theproductofthebranching

frac-tionsforthetopquarkdecayingtofinalstatesincludingalepton,andtheHiggs bosondecayingtobottomquarks,amountingtoapproximately8%,isincludedin thesignalselectionefficiency.Left-handed(denotedbylh)andright-handed (de-notedbyrh)couplingsoftheTquarktoSMparticlesinassociatedproductionwith bottomandtopquarks,respectively,areshownseparately.

includesalldecaymodesofthetopquarkandtheHiggsboson,i.e. theproductofthebranchingfractionsforthetopquark decaying to final statesincluding a lepton, and the Higgs boson decaying tobottom quarks,amounting toapproximately 8%,is includedin the signal selection efficiency. The selection efficiency is notably largerforthe right-handedsignal samples,becauseofthe harder

pTspectrumofleptonsstemmingfromright-handedTquarks,and

thepresence ofadditional leptons fromthe associated top quark production.

5. Backgroundestimate

Thecombined shape ofthe MT distribution ofall background

processesisprovidedbythedatainthecontrol region.Itisused together with the simulated signal distribution in a fit of signal plus backgrounddistributions to the observed data.The normal-izationofthebackgrounddistributionisestimatedinthefit.

Fig. 6showsthereconstructedmassoftheTquark candidates inthecontrolregion,wherethesignalcrosssectionisincreasedby afactorof20.Data andsimulationisobservedtoagree.The con-trolregion featuresa signal-to-backgroundratioofapproximately 5%ofthatfoundinthesignalregionandcanthereforebeusedto estimatethebackgroundwithlowsignalcontamination.

Both thesignal andcontrol regions contain50–60% top quark pair background and 20–30% W

+

jets background. The relative backgroundcompositionisthereforesimilarinthesignaland con-trolregions.Alsothekinematicconfigurationofthetopquarkand Higgs boson candidates are similar. These two features facilitate thederivationofthebackgroundshapefromthecontrolregionin datawithout any further corrections. This procedure isvalidated byashapecomparisonofthe MT distributionbetweenthesignal

andcontrol regions in simulated events,asshown in Fig. 7. The compatibilityofthedistributionsisevaluatedwitha

χ

2 _test[53],

includingthestatisticaluncertaintiesofthesimulationasweights inthetest.Thep-valuesobtainedintheelectronandmuon chan-nelsare0.22and0.09,respectively.Therefore,theMTdistributions

areassumedtobecompatibleinthesignalandcontrolregions.In addition

Fig. 7

showsfurthercrosschecksusingzerosubjetbtags ontheHiggsboson candidate,therebyenriching thecontribution ofthe W

+

jets and QCD backgrounds. Alsothese regions are in goodagreement.

Theaforementionedshape comparisonisrepeatedfor system-aticuncertaintiesthatcanchangetheshapeoftheMTdistribution

ineitherthesignalorthecontrolregion.Thesearethejetenergy scale andresolutionuncertainties, aswell asuncertainties inthe b tagstatusof a Higgsbosoncandidate subjet. Backgroundcross sectionsarevariedbytwicetheiruncertainty,exceptforthe mul-tijetbackground,whichisvariedbyhalftheestimatedvalue.Each variationinasystematicuncertaintyisappliedconsistentlyinboth regions.

Thecompatibilitybetweenthevalidationregionsandthe con-trolregionisalsocheckedindata,asshownin

Fig. 8

.Agreement betweenthecorrespondingregionsisobservedinallcases.

Inthecontrolregion,632(2949)eventsareselectedinthe elec-tron(muon)channel.Theserelativelylargenumbersofevents en-surethatthestatisticaluncertaintyisnegligiblecomparedtothat in the signal region. In Fig. 9the background estimate is shown withthedistributionofMT indata.

6. Systematicuncertainties

Sources of systematic uncertainty mayinfluence the rateand shape ofthe signalpredictions aswell astheshape ofthe back-grounddistribution.Thebackgroundshapeuncertaintyistakenas theuncertaintyineachbinofthedistributionofitsestimate.Note that there is norateuncertainty associated withthe background prediction described in Section 5, since its normalization is not used toobtain thefinal results.In theabove figures, severalrate andshapeuncertaintiesareconsidered,forthesimulationsofboth thesignalandthebackground.Theone withthelargesteffecton thefinal resultoriginatesfromtheuncertaintyintheforwardjet selection efficiency. The next largestcontributions arise from the uncertainties in the b tag efficiency and jet energy corrections. Theimpactsofthesystematicuncertaintiesontheeventratesare listedin

Table 3

.

Scale factors for the b tagging efficiency are applied to sim-ulated events to match the b tagging performance observed in data[33].Thescalefactorshaveasystematicuncertaintyof2–5% for jets originating from b hadrons, 4–10% for c quark jets and 7–10% for light-flavour jets, all depending on the pT of the jet.

Those uncertainties are propagated to the final result, where the uncertainties for heavy-flavour (b and c) jets and light-flavour (u, d, s, g) jetsaretreatedascorrelatedwithintheirgroup,butthe uncertaintiesforheavy-flavourjetsareassumedtobeuncorrelated withthoseforlight-flavourjets.

Jetenergyscaleandresolutioncorrectionsdependonthejet pT

and

η

.Theassociateduncertaintiesaretypicallyafewpercent.The resultinguncertaintyinthesignalyieldisderivedbyapplyingthe

±

1

σ

variationssimultaneouslytoAK4andAK8jetsandalso prop-agating thevariationofjet momentaintothecalculationof E_Tmiss

atthesametime.The

±

1

σ

variations fortheresolutionsmearing inthesoft-dropmassareevaluatedseparately.Additionally,asthe reconstruction efficiencyofforward jetshasbeenobserved tobe largerinthesimulationcomparedtothedata,arateuncertaintyof

±

15%isassignedtothesignalsamples.Thisuncertaintyis deter-mined by evaluating theevent selection efficiencyusing forward jets in two control regions requiring an eventto be selected by thebaselineselectionandadditionallyhavingeitherzerosubjetb tagsorexactlyone,inassociationwiththeHbosoncandidate.The centralregioniswellmodelledbythesimulation.

Toestimatetheuncertaintyinthepileupsimulation,avariation of

±

5%intheinelasticcrosssectionvalue[54],controllingthe av-eragepileupmultiplicity,isused.Theuncertaintyintheluminosity measurement is

±

2.7% [55].Systematic identificationand trigger uncertainties for electrons andmuonsare takeninto account for the signal processes. The combined trigger and lepton isolation (



R

(,

j

)

or prel_T

(,

j

)

) selection efficiency hasa rate uncertainty of

±

5%. Forthe PDF uncertaintythe complete set of NNPDF 3.0

Fig. 6. Vector-likeTquarkcandidatemassinthecontrolregionfortheelectron(left)andmuon(right)channels.Signalsamplesarenormalizedto20 pb,whichisafactor of20largerthanwhatisusedinFig. 4.Theshapeofthedatadistributionprovidesthebackgroundestimate.Thedifferentbackgroundcontributionsareshownusingfull histogramswhiletheopenhistograms aresignalyieldsandthedataareshownassolidcircles.Thehatchedbandsrepresentthestatisticalandsystematicuncertaintiesof thesimulatedeventsamples.ThesystematicuncertaintiesincludethosediscussedinSection6,excepttheforwardjetuncertainty.

Fig. 7. ShapecomparisonoftheTquarkcandidatemassdistributionsinthesignal(violetsolidline)andcontrol(shadedhistogram)regionsaswellasthevalidationregions A(darkbluedashedline)andB(lightbluedashedline)fortheelectron(left)andmuon(right)channels.Thedistributionsshowthesumofallsimulatedbackgrounds, withthestatisticaluncertaintiesindicatedastheerrorbars(signalregion)orthehatchedband(controlregion).(Forinterpretationofthereferencestocolourinthisfigure legend,thereaderisreferredtothewebversionofthisarticle.)

Fig. 8. ShapecomparisonoftheTquarkcandidatemassdistributionsinthecontrolregion(shadedhistogram)regionsandthevalidationregionsA(green)andB(blue)for theelectron(left)andmuon(right)channelsindata.(Forinterpretationofthereferencestocolourinthisfigurelegend,thereaderisreferredtothewebversionofthis article.)

Fig. 9. Finalbackground,data,andexpectedsignaldistributionsinMTinthesignalregionfortheelectron(left)andmuon(right)channels.Thehatcheduncertaintyband

showsthestatisticaluncertaintyinthebackgroundprediction,whichisusedastheshapeuncertaintyinthefit,asdetailedinSection6.Thenormalizationofthebackground estimateistakenfromthefit,itsuncertaintyis12%(notincludedinthehatcheduncertaintyband).

Table 3

Impactsofthelargestsystematicuncertaintiesinthesignaleventyields.ThesignalsamplesforTlhb productionareshown.Theuncertaintiesintheforwardjet,andlepton

isolationandtriggerarerateuncertainties,allotheruncertaintiesareevaluatedbin-by-bin.Allvaluesarereportedaspercentageofthesignaleventyield.

Electron channel Muon channel

Tlh(700) Tlh(1200) Tlh(1700) Tlh(700) Tlh(1200) Tlh(1700)

b tagging, heavy flavour 7.8 7.6 8.7 6.0 7.5 8.5

b tagging, light flavour 0.7 0.7 0.5 1.2 0.6 0.7

Forward jet 15 15 15 15 15 15

Jet energy resolution 7.0 0.6 0.2 0.2 2.3 0.9

Jet energy scale 9.0 4.2 4.9 3.8 3.8 4.4

Lepton isolation and trigger 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0

Soft-drop mass 3.1 1.1 0.3 0.5 0.3 1.3

PDF 4.8 2.7 4.2 4.8 2.8 4.1

Luminosity 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7

Pileup 1.4 0.6 0.1 1.3 0.7 1.1

PDF eigenvectors are evaluated, following the PDF4LHC prescrip-tion[56].

7.Results

No significant deviationis observed fromthe shape predicted bytheSM(see

Fig. 9

).Thep-valuesofthecompatibilitytests be-tweenthepredictedandobserveddistributions are0.97and0.51 intheelectronandmuonchannels,respectively.

Exclusionlimitsaresetontheproductoftheproductioncross section and the branching fraction for single production of a vector-like T quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson. The95% confidencelevel(CL) exclusionlimitsarederived witha Bayesianstatisticalmethod [57,58],wherebackground andsignal templates in the MT distribution are used to make a combined

fitto thedataintheelectronandmuonchannels.Systematic un-certaintiesareincludedasnuisanceparameters. Forrate-only un-certaintiesa log-normal prior isassigned. Aflat prior isusedfor thesignalstrength.Shapeuncertaintiesinthesignaltemplatesare takenintoaccountusingtemplatemorphing withcubic-linear in-terpolation, wherethe cubic interpolation is used up to the one sigmadeviationandthe linearinterpolationbeyondthat. Forthe background normalization a Gaussian prior with 100% width is used.The statisticaluncertaintyinthebackgroundestimateis in-cludedwiththe“Barlow–Beestonlight”method[59],whichusesa Gaussianapproximationoftheuncertaintyineachbin.Abias-test isperformedbyinjecting a signalintothe fitteddata.Thebiases areobservedtobenegligible.

The obtained exclusion limits are compared with predictions fromtwobenchmarkmodels.ForTlhb production,branching

frac-tions of 50/25/25% for the T quark decay to bW/tZ/tH are con-sidered. These branching fractions correspond to the predictions for a vector-like isospin singlet.A scenario withneutral currents onlyandequalcouplingstotZandtHisusedforTrht production

(0/50/50%),correspondingtothepredictionforanisospindoublet. Signal crosssectionsaretakenfromNLO calculations[23,60]and multiplied with a factor of 0.25 and 0.5 in order to accommo-date thebranching fraction

B(

tH

)

=

B(

bW

)/

2 and

B(

tH

)

=

B(

tZ

)

forTlhb andTrht production, respectively.Single vector-likequark

productionis parametrised witha couplingconstant to the elec-troweaksector.Forthecouplingofaleft- (right-)handedTquark toaquarkandbosonpair,qV,thecouplingstrength,asdefinedin Ref. [23],ofc_LbW_(R)(tZ)

=

0

.

5 is assumedin production,where c isa factormultiplying theweakcouplingconstant gw. Fora coupling

parameterof0.5,ithasbeenverifiedthattheexperimental resolu-tionismuchlargerthanthewidthoftheTquarkinthesimplified model.

In the simplest Simplified Model [23], only the left- (right-) handed couplings are allowed forthe singlet (doublet)scenarios, i.e.cbW_R(L)(tZ)

=

0,simultaneouslyforproductionanddecayoftheT quark. Therefore,only fullyleft- (right-) handed polarisationsare consideredfortheexclusionlimits.

Fig. 10 showsthe 95% CL upper limitson the product of the crosssectionandthebranchingfraction,alongwiththepredictions ofthesimplestSimplifiedModelwithcouplingtothirdgeneration SMquarksonly.Itcanbeseenthattheexcludedcrosssectionsare anorderofmagnitudehigherthanthepredictions,andthecurrent datadonotplaceconstraintsonthisparticularmodel.Thisisthe firstsearch forsinglyproducedVLQ by theCMSCollaboration.In the future,resultsin thischannel willbecome moresensitive by

Fig. 10. ExclusionlimitsontheproductofthecrosssectionandthebranchingfractionofsingleTquarkproductionandT→tH decay.Asimultaneousfitismadetothe electronandmuonchannels.Left- (right-)handedTquarkproductioninassociationwithabottom(top)quarkisshownintheleft- (right-)diagram.

combiningresultswithotherfinalstates,anditisanticipatedthat suchSimplifiedModelcrosssectionswillbeprobedwiththelarge expectedLHCRun2dataset.

8. Summary

Asearch fora singlyproducedvector-like Tquarkdecayingto a top quark and a Higgs boson has been presented, where the top quark decay includes an electron or a muon and the Higgs boson decays into a pair of b quarks. Forevery event, the four-momentum of thevector-like Tquark candidateis reconstructed and its mass is evaluated. No excess over the estimated back-groundsisobserved.Upperlimitsareplacedontheproductofthe cross section and the branching fraction for vector-like Tquarks to a top quark and a Higgs boson in the mass range of 700 to 1800 GeV,at95% confidencelevel.Fora Tquark withamass of 1000 GeV with left- (right-)handed couplingto standard model particles,weexcludeavalueoftheproductoftheproductioncross section andthebranching fractiongreater than0.8(0.7) pb. This isthefirstanalysissettingexclusionlimitsonthecrosssection of singlyproducedvector-likeTquarksatacentre-of-massenergyof 13 TeV.

Acknowledgements

WecongratulateourcolleaguesintheCERNaccelerator depart-ments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technicalandadministrativestaffs atCERN andatother CMS in-stitutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. Inaddition,wegratefullyacknowledgethecomputingcentresand personneloftheWorldwideLHCComputingGridfordeliveringso effectivelythe computinginfrastructureessential to ouranalyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construc-tionandoperation oftheLHCandthe CMSdetectorprovidedby thefollowingfundingagencies:BMWFWandFWF(Austria);FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIEN-CIAS(Colombia);MSESandCSF(Croatia);RPF(Cyprus);SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Fin-land,MEC,andHIP(Finland);CEAandCNRS/IN2P3(France);BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hun-gary);DAEandDST(India);IPM(Iran);SFI(Ireland);INFN(Italy); MSIPandNRF(RepublicofKorea);LAS (Lithuania);MOE andUM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV,CONACYT, LNS, 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); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, andNSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK andTAEK (Turkey); NASU andSFFR(Ukraine);STFC(UnitedKingdom);DOEandNSF(USA).

Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie pro-gramme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (Eu-ropean Union);the Leventis Foundation;the A. P. Sloan Founda-tion; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Fed-eral Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technolo-gie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of theCzech Republic; theCouncil of Scienceand Indus-trial Research,India;the HOMING PLUSprogrammeofthe Foun-dation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Re-gional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2014/13/B/ST2/02543, 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, and 2015/19/B/ST2/ 02861, Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406; the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF andthe Greek NSRF;the Na-tional Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Clarín-COFUND del Principado de Asturias; theRachadapisekSompotFundforPostdoctoralFellowship, Chula-longkornUniversityandtheChulalongkornAcademic intoIts2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation,contractC-1845.

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E. Asilar,

T. Bergauer,

J. Brandstetter,

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M. Flechl,

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M. Jeitler

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N. Rad,

B. Rahbaran,

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W. Waltenberger,

C.-E. Wulz

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V. Makarenko,

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V. Mossolov,

N. Shumeiko,

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F. Blekman,

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I. De Bruyn,

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B. Clerbaux,

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M. Vidal Marono,

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F.L. Alves,

G.A. Alves,

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P. Petkov

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C. Bernet,

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UniversitédeLyon,UniversitéClaudeBernardLyon1,CNRS-IN2P3,InstitutdePhysiqueNucléairedeLyon,Villeurbanne,France

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GeorgianTechnicalUniversity,Tbilisi,Georgia

Z. Tsamalaidze

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TbilisiStateUniversity,Tbilisi,Georgia

C. Autermann,

S. Beranek,

L. Feld,

A. Heister,

M.K. Kiesel,

K. Klein,

M. Lipinski,

A. Ostapchuk,

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T. Verlage,

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V. Zhukov

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D. Duchardt,

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RWTHAachenUniversity,III.PhysikalischesInstitutA,Aachen,Germany

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C. Pistone,

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RWTHAachenUniversity,III.PhysikalischesInstitutB,Aachen,Germany

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B. Vormwald

UniversityofHamburg,Hamburg,Germany

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UniversityofIoánnina,Ioánnina,Greece

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