The XXVIII International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2021)

Searches for vector-like quarks at CMS

26 Aug 2021, 14:30

20m

ZR2

Searches for the BSM Physics at the LHC and Future Hadronic Colliders Searches for the BSM Physics at the LHC and Future Hadronic Colliders

Speaker

Francesco Carnevali (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))

Description

We present results of searches for vector-like quarks using proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Single and pair production of vector-like quarks are studied, with decays into a variety of final states, containing top and bottom quarks, electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons. The presented searches make use of a wide variety of reconstructed objects, allowing to explore diverse signatures from multi-leptonic to fully hadronic. We set exclusion limits on the vector-like quark masses and cross sections, and for combinations of the vector-like quark branching ratios.

Presentation materials

Searches_for_VLQs_Carnevali.pdf