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Using trileptons to investigate flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) top quark decays at DZero. Carrie McGivern University of Kansas On behalf of the DZero Collaboration Divisions of Particles and Fields, Aug. 10, 2011. Outline. Motivation DZero detector Event selection - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Carrie McGivern
University of Kansas
On behalf of the DZero Collaboration
Divisions of Particles and Fields, Aug. 10, 2011
Using trileptons to investigate flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) top
quark decays at DZero
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Outline
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• Motivation
• DZero detector
• Event selection
• FCNC signal modeling
• Branching ratio and coupling limits
• Summary
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FCNC Motivation
• SM Lagrangian contains no flavor changing neutral currents terms
– t→c,u quarks transitions only possible through radiative corrections
• The standard model (SM) has been found to be in excellent agreement with experimental results
• Branching ratio of t→Zc is ~10-14, while t→Zu is ~10-17
• Some theories beyond SM allow B~10-4
• Observation would certainly point to physics beyond the SM
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FCNC Motivation
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• Use a previous trilepton + imbalance in transverse momentum WZ cross section analysis : Physics Letters B 695, 67 (2011)
• Search for signal using new final state : X is any number of jets
• Set limits on branching ratio of t→Zq (q = u, c)
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FCNC Motivation• Use a previous trilepton + imbalance in transverse momentum
WZ cross section analysis : Physics Letters B 695, 67 (2011)
• Search for signal using new final state : X is any number of jets
• Set limits on branching ratio of t→Zq (q = u, c)
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• CDF results : B(t→Zq) < 3.7% (observed) with a < 5.0% (expected) at 95% C.L. using 1.9 fb-1 T. Aaltonen et al. [CDF Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett.101, 192002 (2008)
– Z→ℓℓ + ≥4 jets
– Complementary search
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FCNC Motivation
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• Atlas results : B(t→Zq) < 17% (observed) with a < 12% (expected) at 95% C.L. using 35 pb-1 ATLAS-CONF-2011-061
– Three leptons + MET + 2 jets
• Use a previous trilepton + imbalance in transverse momentum WZ cross section analysis : Physics Letters B 695, 67 (2011)
• Search for signal using new final state : X is any number of jets
• Set limits on branching ratio of t→Zq (q = u, c)
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DZero Detector• Consists of three sub-detectors :– Tracking : Reconstruct interaction vertices and measure momenta of
charged particles, enclosed in a 1.9 T solenoid field – Calorimeter : EM and Hadronic calorimeters measure energies of
hadrons, electrons and photons
– Muon : consists of a layer of drift tubes and scintillation counters inside a 1.8 T toroidal magnet
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DZero Detector• Consists of three sub-detectors :– Tracking : Reconstruct interaction vertices and measure momenta of
charged particles, enclosed in a 1.9 T solenoid field – Calorimeter : EM and Hadronic calorimeters measure energies of
hadrons, electrons and photons
– Muon : consists of a layer of drift tubes and scintillation counters inside a 1.8 T toroidal magnet
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DZero Detector• Consists of three sub-detectors :– Tracking : Reconstruct interaction vertices and measure momenta of
charged particles, enclosed in a 1.9 T solenoid field – Calorimeter : EM and Hadronic calorimeters measure energies of
hadrons, electrons and photons
– Muon : consists of a layer of drift tubes and scintillation counters inside a 1.8 T toroidal magnet
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Event Selection
• Use 4.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected from the Tevatron Run II, selection criteria optimized with s/√(s+b).
• Signal : FCNC ttbar, Main Backgrounds: WZ, ZZ, Zγ, V+Jets, SM ttbar
– Determined using MC Simulations and Data
Imbalance of transverse momentum (MET)
Invariant dilepton mass within Z window
≥ 3 isolated leptons, with high pT, separated in ΔR = √(Δη2 + Δϕ2)
Three jet multiplicity bins; 0, 1, ≥ 2 Come from same vertex
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FCNC Signal Modeling• Use CompHEP to generate the signal at the parton level (to
correctly model the helicity structure) and PYTHIA for jet hadronization
– Modified to include the following FCNC Lagrangian
• Assume SM neutral current couplings (Z→qqbar for up-type quarks) :
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FCNC Signal Modeling• Use CompHEP to generate the signal at the parton level (to
correctly model the helicity structure) and PYTHIA for jet hadronization
– Modified to include the following FCNC Lagrangian
• Assume SM neutral current couplings (Z→qqbar for up-type quarks) :
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From CompHEP:
• Define arbitrary angle, θ*, between momentum of Z in the top rest frame and the positively charged lepton momentum from Z→ee in the Z rest frame.
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Yields and Jet Distribution
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• 35 candidate events
– Expected background = 31.8 ± 0.3(stat) ± 3.9(syst) events
• Dominate Systematic Uncertainties : Lepton ID, Theoretical Cross Sections (including FCNC ttbar signal), Jet Energy Scale, Jet Energy Resolution
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Scalar HT Distributions
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• HT (ΣpT(leptons)+MET+ ΣpT(jets))
• HT peak increases with jet multiplicity
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B(t→Zq) Limits
• Use njet, HT (ΣpT(leptons)+MET+ ΣpT(jets)), and reconstructed top quark mass (mt
reco) (from the Z leptons and jets) to separate signal from background
• Good separation is observed between signal and background in both variables
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B(t→Zq) Limits
• Use Poisson probabilities, with systematic uncertainty gaussian smearing, to extract the limits
• B(t→Zq) < 3.2% (observed), < 3.8% (expected) at 95% C.L.
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Limits on vtqZ Coupling
D0new limits
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• Coupling limits– vtqZ < 0.19 (observed), < 0.21 (expected) at 95%
C.L.
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Candidate eee+1jet Event
• eee + 1 jet candidate event, with mtreco = 351 GeV
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jet
MET
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Summary
• No indication of new physics as of yet
• Recently published in Physics Letters B 701, 313 (2011)
• B(t→Zq) < 3.2% (observed), < 3.8% (expected) at 95% C.L.
• Coupling limits vtZq < 0.19 (observed), < 0.21 (expected) at 95% C.L.
– World’s best vtZq limits!
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Backup Slides
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Detailed Event Selection
• Look for a signal with 3 or more isolated leptons and an imbalance in transverse momentum (MET)
• Use 4.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected from the Tevatron Run II, selection criteria optimized with s/√(s+b).
• Main Backgrounds: WZ, ZZ, Zγ, V+Jets, SM ttbar– Determined using MC Simulations and Data
• General selection criteria for all leptons :– Invariant dilepton mass (74 GeV < Mee < 104 GeV,
65 GeV < Mμμ < 115 GeV, 60 GeV < MeeICR < 120 GeV)
– Missing Transverse Energy > (20 - 30) GeV
– Lepton pT > (15 - 30) GeV
– Lepton ΔR (=√(Δϕ2 + Δη2)) > 0.5 - 0.6
– ΔzDCA (between any two lepton tracks) < 3 cm
– Jet ET > 20 GeV
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FCNC Event Yields
Jet Inclusive
0th Jet Bin
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FCNC Event Yields
1st Jet Bin
≥ 2 Jets Bin
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