https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136017009
Searches for Fourth Generation, Vector-like Quarks and Resonances with the ATLAS Detector
Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
a e-mail: snezana.nektarijevic@cern.ch
Published online: 26 November 2013
A summary of the searches for heavy quarks and heavy bosons decaying to top-antitop pairs (
resonances) with 14.3 fb−1 of the proton-proton collisions data at √s = 8 TeV delivered by the LHC and recorded by the ATLAS detector is presented here. The searches for heavy quarks are performed in context of the chiral fourth generation and vector-like quarks. One of the searches is also sensitive to the production of four top quarks and positively-charged top quark pairs. The search for resonances is motivated by the narrow width topcolor leptophobic Z’ and broad width Kaluza-Klein gluon models.
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