Shedding Light on Top Partner at the LHC

Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity of the 14 TeV LHC to pair-produced top partners ($T$) decaying into the Standard Model top quark ($t$) plus either a gluon ($g$) or a photon ($\gamma$). The decays $T\to tg$ and $T\to t\gamma$ can be dominant when the mixing between the top partner and top quark are negligible. In this case, the conventional decays $T\to bW$, $T\to tZ$, and $T\to th$ are highly suppressed and can be neglected. We take a model-independent approach using effective operators for the $T$-$t$-$g$ and $T$-$t$-$\gamma$ interactions, considering both spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ and spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ top partners. We perform a semi-realistic simulation with boosted top quark tagging and an appropriate implementation of a jet-faking-photon rate. Despite a simple dimensional analysis indicating that the branching ratios $\mathrm{BR}(T\to t\gamma )\ll \mathrm{BR}(T\to tg)$ due to the electric-magnetic coupling being much smaller than the strong force coupling, our study shows that the LHC sensitivity to $T\bar{T}\to t\overline{t}\gamma g$ is more significant than the sensitivity to $T\overline{T}\to t\overline{t}gg$. This is due to much smaller backgrounds attributed to the isolated high-$p_T$ photon. We find that with these decay channels and 3 ab${}^{-1}$ of data, the LHC is sensitive to top partner masses $m_T\lesssim 1.4-1.8$~TeV for spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ and spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ top partners, respectively.

arXiv comment33 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables

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