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Framework for model independent analyses of multiple extra quark scenarios

Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2014, Article number: 80 (2014) Cite this article

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In this paper we present an analysis strategy and a dedicated tool to determine the exclusion confidence level for any scenario involving multiple heavy extra quarks with generic decay channels, as predicted in several extensions of the Standard Model. We have created, validated and used a software package, called XQCAT (eXtra Quark Combined Analysis Tool), which is based on publicly available experimental data from direct searches for top partners and from Supersymmetry inspired searches. By means of this code, we recast the limits from CMS on new heavy extra quarks considering a complete set of decay channels. The resulting exclusion confidence levels are presented for some simple scenarios with multiple states and general coupling assumptions. Highlighting the importance of combining multiple topology searches to obtain accurate re-interpretations of the existing searches, we discuss the reach of the SUSY analyses so as to set bounds on new quark resonances. In particular, we report on the re-interpretation of the existing limits on benchmark scenarios with one and multiple pair-produced top partners having non-exclusive couplings to the third Standard Model generation of quarks.

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  1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, U.K.

    Daniele Barducci, Alexander Belyaev, Stefano Moretti & Luca Panizzi

  2. Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, U.K.

    Daniele Barducci, Alexander Belyaev, Stefano Moretti & Luca Panizzi

  3. Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Université catholique de Louvain, Chemin du Cyclotron, 2, B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Mathieu Buchkremer

  4. Université de Lyon, F-69622, Lyon, France

    Giacomo Cacciapaglia & Aldo Deandrea

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    Giacomo Cacciapaglia & Aldo Deandrea

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    Giacomo Cacciapaglia & Aldo Deandrea

  7. INFN, Sezione di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Stefania De Curtis

  8. Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

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Barducci, D., Belyaev, A., Buchkremer, M. et al. Framework for model independent analyses of multiple extra quark scenarios. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 80 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2014)080

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