Searches for new physics using the ttbar invariant mass distribution in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV

S. Chatrchyan , M. Besançon (1) , F. Couderc (1) , M. Dejardin (1) , D. Denegri (1) , B. Fabbro (1) , J.L. Faure (1) , F. Ferri (1) , S. Ganjour (1) , A. Givernaud (1) , P. Gras (1) , G. Hamel de Monchenault (1) , P. Jarry (1) , E. Locci (1) , J. Malcles (1) , L. Millischer (1) , A. Nayak (1) , J. Rander (1) , A. Rosowsky (1) , M. Titov (1) , S. Baffioni (2) , F. Beaudette (2) , L. Benhabib (2) , M. Bluj (2) , Pierre Busson (2) , C. Charlot (2) , N. Daci (2) , T. Dahms (2) , M. Dalchenko (2) , L. Dobrzynski (2) , A. Florent (2) , R. Granier de Cassagnac (2) , M. Haguenauer (2) , P. Mine (2) , C. Mironov (2) , I.N. Naranjo (2) , M. Nguyen (2) , C. Ochando (2) , P. Paganini (2) , D. Sabes (2) , R. Salerno (2) , Y. Sirois (2) , C. Veelken (2) , A. Zabi (2) , J.-L. Agram (3) , J. Andrea (3) , D. Bloch (3) , J.-M. Brom (3) , E.C. Chabert (3) , C. Collard (3) , E. Conte (3) , F. Drouhin (3) , J.-C. Fontaine (3) , D. Gele (3) , U. Goerlach (3) , C. Goetzmann (3) , P. Juillot (3) , A.-C. Le Bihan (3) , P. van Hove (3) , S. Gadrat (4) , S. Beauceron (5) , N. Beaupere (5) , G. Boudoul (5) , S. Brochet (5) , J. Chasserat (5) , R. Chierici (5) , D. Contardo (5) , P. Depasse (5) , H. El Mamouni (5) , J. Fan (5) , J. Fay (5) , S. Gascon (5) , M. Gouzevitch (5) , B. Ille (5) , T. Kurca (5) , M. Lethuillier (5) , L. Mirabito (5) , S. Perries (5) , L. Sgandurra (5) , V. Sordini (5) , M. Vander Donckt (5) , P. Verdier (5) , S. Viret (5) , H. Xiao (5)

1 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
2 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
3 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
4 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
5 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon

Searches for anomalous top quark-antiquark production are presented, based on pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns, were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. No excess of events above the yield expected from the standard model is observed. Limits on the production cross section times branching fraction probe, for the first time, a region of parameter space for certain models of new physics not yet constrained by precision measurements.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

S. Chatrchyan, M. Besançon, F. Couderc, M. Dejardin, D. Denegri, et al.. Searches for new physics using the ttbar invariant mass distribution in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 2013, 111, pp.211804. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211804⟩. ⟨in2p3-00860076⟩