PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen The version of the following full text has not yet been defined or was untraceable and may differ from the publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/34767 Please be advised that this information was generated on 2017-06-15 and may be subject to change. P R L . 98, 041801 (2007) FE R M IL A B -P U B -06/278-E Experim ental discrimination between charge 2e/3 top quark and charge 4e/3 exotic quark production scenarios arXiv:hep-ex/0608044v2 26 Jan 2007 V.M . A bazov ,36 B. A b b o tt ,76 M. A bolins ,66 B.S. A charya ,29 M. A dam s ,52 T. A dam s ,50 M. A gelou ,18 S.H. A h n ,31 M. A h san ,60 G .D . A lexeev ,36 G. A lkhazov ,40 A. A lto n ,65 G. A lverson ,64 G.A. Alves ,2 M. A n astasoaie ,35 T. A ndeen ,54 S. A nderson ,46 B. A n d rieu ,17 M.S. A nzelc ,54 Y. A rnoud ,14 M. A rov ,53 A. Askew ,50 B. Â sm an ,41 A.C.S. Assis Je su s ,3 O. 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W e u se 370 p b _1 o f d a ta co llected b y th e D 0 e x p e rim en t a n d select e v en ts w ith 4 a t least one h ig h tra n sv e rse m o m e n tu m elec tro n or m u o n , h ig h tra n sv e rse en erg y im b alan ce, an d fo u r or m o re je ts. W e d isc rim in a te b e tw een b- a n d b -q u ark je ts by u sin g th e ch arg e a n d m o m e n ta of tra c k s w ith in th e je t cones. T h e d a ta is c o n siste n t w ith th e e x p e c te d electric charge, \q\ = 2 e /3 . W e exclude, a t th e 92% C .L., t h a t th e sam p le is solely d u e to th e p ro d u c tio n o f exotic q u a rk p airs Q Q w ith \q\ = 4 e /3 . W e place a n u p p e r lim it o n th e fra c tio n of Q Q p a irs p < 0.80 a t th e 90% C.L. PA CS num bers: 13.85.Rm , 14.65.Ha T h e heavy p article discovered by th e C D F and D0 col lab o ratio n s a t th e Ferm ilab T evatron p ro to n -an tip ro to n collider in 1995 [1] is w idely recognized to be th e to p q uark. C u rren tly m easured p ro p erties of th e p article are consistent w ith sta n d a rd m odel (SM) ex p ectations for th e to p q uark. However, m any of th e p ro p erties of the p article are still p oorly known. In p articu lar, its electric charge, a fu ndam ental q u a n tity ch aracterizing a particle, has n o t yet been determ ined. To d ate, it is possible to in te rp re t th e discovered p ar ticle as eith er a charge 2 e /3 or —4 e /3 q uark. In the published to p q u ark analyses of th e C D F and D0 col lab o ratio n s [2 ], th ere is a two-fold am biguity in p air ing th e b-quarks an d th e W bosons in th e reaction pp ^ t t ^ W + W - bb, an d equivalently, in th e electric charge assignm ent of th e m easured particle. In addition to th e SM assignm ent, t ^ W +b, “t ” ^ W - b is also con ceivable, in which case “t ” w ould actu ally be an exotic q uark, Q, w ith charge q = —4 e /3 (charge-conjugate pro cesses are im plied). It is possible to fit Z ^ l + l - and Z ^ bb d a ta assum ing a to p q u a rk m ass of m t = 270 GeV an d a rig h t-h an d ed b-quark th a t m ixes w ith th e isospin + 1 /2 com ponent of an exotic doublet of charge —1e/3 an d —4 e /3 q uarks, (Q1 , Q 4 )R [3]. In th is scenario, the —4 e /3 charge q u ark is th e p article discovered a t th e Tevatro n , an d th e to p quark, w ith m ass of 270 GeV, would have so far escaped detection. In th is L etter, we re p o rt th e first ex perim ental discrim inatio n betw een th e 2 e/3 an d 4 e /3 charge scenarios. We also consider th e case w here th e analyzed sam ple con tain s an ad m ix tu re of SM to p q uarks an d exotic quarks an d place an u p p er lim it on th e exotic q u ark fraction. O u r search s tra te g y assum es each q u ark decays 100% of th e tim e to a W boson an d a b-quark. We use th e leptonplus-jets channel which arises w hen one W boson decays leptonically an d one decays hadronically. T he charged leptons (e /u ) originate from a direct W decay or from W ^ t ^ e /u . We require th a t th e final sta te have at least tw o b-quark je ts. T he d a ta used in th is L e tter were collected by th e D0 experim ent from Ju n e 2002 th ro u g h A ugust 2004 an d correspond to an in te g ra te d lum inosity of 370 p b - 1 . T h e D0 d etecto r includes a track in g system , calorim e ters, an d a m uon sp ectro m eter [4]. T he tracking sys tem is m ade u p of a silicon m icro strip track er (SM T) an d a cen tral fiber tracker, located inside a 2 T su per conducting solenoid. T he SM T, w ith a typical strip p itch of 50-80 um , allows a precise d eterm in atio n of th e p rim ary in teractio n vertex (PV ) and an accurate d eterm in atio n of th e im p act p a ram ete r of a track rela tive to th e P V [5]. T he tracker design provides efficient charged-particle m easurem ents in th e pseu d o rap id ity re gion |n| < 3 [6 ]. T he calorim eter consists of a barrel section covering |n| < 1 . 1 , and tw o end caps extending to |n| « 4.2. T he m uon sp ectrom eter encapsulates the calorim eter up to |n| = 2.0 and consists of th ree layers of d rift cham bers and two or th ree layers of scintillators [7]. A 1.8 T iron toroidal m agnet is located outside th e in nerm ost layer of th e m uon detector. We select d a ta sam ples in th e electron and m uon chan nels by requiring an electron w ith transverse m om entum p T > 20 G eV an d |n| < 1.1, or a m uon w ith p T > 20 GeV and |n| < 2.0. T he leptons are required to be isolated from o ther particles using calorim eter and tracking in form ation. M ore details on th e lepton identification and trigger requirem ents are given in Ref. [8 ]. W boson candi d ate events are th e n selected in b o th channels by requir ing m issing transverse energy, E t , in excess of 20 GeV due to th e neutrino. To rem ove m ultijet background, E T is required to be non-collinear w ith th e lepton di rection in th e transverse plane. Je ts are defined using a cone algorithm [9] w ith radius A R = 0.5 [10]. These events m ust be accom panied by four or m ore je ts w ith p T > 15 G eV and ra p id ity |y| < 2.5. A fter all th e above selection requirem ents are applied, we have a to ta l of 231 (277) events in th e m uon (electron) channel. We use a secondary vertex tagging (SVT) algorithm to reco n stru ct displaced vertices produced by th e decay of B hadrons. Secondary vertices are reco n stru cted from two or m ore tracks satisfying: p T > 1 GeV, > 1 hits in th e SM T layers, and im pact p ara m e te r significance dca/<rdca > 3.5. A je t is considered as SV T -tagged if it contains a secondary vertex w ith a decay length sig nificance L xy/<TLxy > 7 [11]. T he d eterm in atio n of the sam ple com position relies on b-tagging, c-tagging, and light flavour tagging efficiencies and uses th e m eth o d de scribed in Ref. [12]. In order to increase th e p u rity of th e sam ple we select only events w ith two or m ore SVTtagged jets. In th e selected sam ple of 21 events w ith two SV T -tagged jets, th e largest (second largest) background is Wbb (single to p q u ark [13]) pro d u ctio n w ith a contri b u tio n of « 5% ( « 1%) to th e num ber of selected events. T he to p or a n ti-to p q u ark whose W boson decays leptonically (hadronically) is refered to as th e leptonic (hadronic) to p and th e associated b-quark is denoted b¿ (bh ). To com pute th e to p qu ark charge we need to i ) de- 5 cide which of th e tw o SV T -tagged je ts are bi and bh and i i ) d eterm ine if bi an d bh are b- or b-quarks. T he detected final sta te p a rto n s in th e t í can d id ate events com prise th e bl an d bh quarks, tw o q u ark s from th e hadro nically de caying W boson, an d one m uon or one electron. T he four highest-pT je ts can be assigned to th e set of final sta te q u ark s according to m any p e rm u ta tio n s an d th ere are at least tw o ways to assign th e SV T -tagged je ts to bi and bh . For each p erm u tatio n , th e m easured four-vectors of th e je ts an d lepton are fitted to th e t í event hyp o th e sis, tak in g into account th e ex perim ental resolutions and constrain in g th e m ass of tw o W bosons to its m easured value an d th e to p q u ark m ass to 175 GeV. We decide which of th e SV T -tagged je ts are bl an d bh b y selecting th e p e rm u ta tio n w ith th e highest p ro b ab ility of arising from a t í event. S tudies on sim ulated t í show th a t this gives th e correct assignm ent in a b o u t 84% of th e events. We m easure th e absolute value of th e to p q u ark charge on each side of th e event, given by Q 1 = |ql + qbl | on the leptonic side an d Q 2 = | —ql + qbh | on th e hadronic side. T he charge of th e lep to n is in d icated by ql , and qbl and qbh are th e charges of th e SV T -tagged je ts on th e lep tonic an d h adronic side of th e event. T he charges qbl and qbh are determ in ed by com bining th e p T and charge of th e track s co ntained w ithin a cone of A R = 0 .5 around th e SV T -tagged je t axis. B ased on an optim ization us ing sim ulated t í events g en erated w ith A L PG EN [14] and G EA N T [15] for a full D0 d etecto r sim ulation, we define an estim ato r for je t charge qjet = ( 2 i q¿ •pT.6) / ( 2 i pT.6) w here th e su b scrip t i runs over all track s w ith p T > 0.5 G eV an d w ithin 0.1 cm of th e P V in th e direction parallel to th e b eam axis. To d eterm ine th e expected d istrib u tio n s for th e to p q u ark charges Q 1 an d Q 2, it is crucial to determ ine the expected d istrib u tio n s for qjet in th e case of a b-quark or a b-quark je t. In « 5 % of th e t í events, one of the SV T -tagged je ts is actu ally a c-quark je t arising from W ^ c í (or its charge conjugate). Therefore we also need to determ in e th e expected d istrib u tio n for qjet in th e case of c- an d í-q u a rk jets. We derive th e expected d istrib u tio n s of je t charge from d ijet collider d a ta , enhanced in heavy flavor (b and c). We select events w ith exactly tw o je ts, b o th S V T-tagged, w ith p T > 15 G eV an d |y| < 2.5. T he m eth o d requires th a t th e tw o je ts are of charge conjugate flavors. To ensure this, we enhance bb an d c í p roduced by flavor cre atio n [16, 17, 18], by requiring th e azim uthal distance betw een th e je ts to be larger th a n 3.0 an d one je t (des ig n ated as j j J to con tain a m uon w ith p T > 4 GeV. We refer to th is sam ple as th e “tig h t dijet sam ple,” to j as th e “ta g je t” an d to th e second je t j 2 as th e “probe je t.” T he fraction of c í events in th e tig h t d ijet sam ple is estim ated using th e d istrib u tio n of th e m uon transverse m om entum w ith respect to th e ta g je t axis (p ^ 1). We fit th e pTe1 d istrib u tio n w ith a sum of tw o p ^ 1 tem plates, one for b-quark je ts (including b o th p ro m p t and cascade decays) and one for sem i-m uonic decays inside c-quark je ts. T his leads to a fraction x c of c í events of 1-1% in th e tig h t dijet sam ple and since th e light flavor ta g ging efficiency is « 1 5 tim es lower, we also conclude th a t th e fraction of lighter flavor je ts is negligible. T he m uon inside th e ta g je t comes either i) from a direct B m eson decay, ii) a B ^ D m eson cascade decay, iii) an oscillated n eu tral B meson, or iv) a direct D m eson decay. We find th a t fu rther con trib u tio n from indirect D m eson decay can be neglected. C harge flipping processes ii) and iii) lead to a m uon of opposite charge to th a t of th e qu ark in itiatin g th e ta g je t and therefore of sam e sign as the q u ark in itiatin g th e probe je t. We find, w ith P Y TH IA [19] sim ulated events and E V T G E N [20] for heavy flavor de cays, th a t charge flipping processes are x = (30 ± 1)% of th e bb events in th e tig h t dijet sam ple. T his fraction is experim entally confirm ed by studying charge correla tio n betw een m uons in back-to-back m uon-tagged dijet events. We denote th e charge d istrib u tio n s for th e probe je t w hen th e m uon on th e ta g side is positive or negative as P M+ and P M- . Sim ilarly we define P f to be th e charge d istrib u tio n w hen th e je t is of flavor f = b, b, c, í. Given th e fractions of c í events and of charge flipping processes we can w rite P M+ = 0.69Pb + 0.30Pb + 0.01P 5 P M- = 0.30Pb + 0.69Pb + 0.01Pc. (1) P M+ and P M- are distrib u tio n s observed in d a ta and are adm ixtures of th e qu ark charge d istributions. E q u a tions 1 are n o t sufficient to ex tra c t th e four probabil ity density functions (p.d.f.’s) P f . Therefore we define a “loose dijet sam ple,” where j is n o t required to be SV T -tagged. U sing th e sam e techniques as for th e tig h t dijet sam ple, we find th a t xc = (19 ± 2)% and th e sam e fraction of charge flipping processes as for th e tig h t dijet sam ple. We refer to P ^ + (P ^- ) as th e observed p .d .f.’s for qjet on th e probe je t in th e loose dijet sam ple, when th e ta g m uon is positive (negative). T hus we can w rite P ¿ + = 0.567Pb + 0 .2 4 3 P + 0.19P5 P¿ - = 0.243Pb + 0 .5 6 7 P + 0.19Pc. (2) We solve Eqs. 1 and 2 to o b tain th e P f for b-, b-, c-, and í-q u a rk jets. T he P f ’s are dependent on th e je t p T , since p T cor relates w ith trac k m ultiplicity in th e je t, and on the je t y, since th e tracking efficiency is rapidity-dependent. T herefore we m ust account for th e different je t p T and y sp ec tra betw een th e probe je ts of th e dijet sam ples and th e b-quark je ts in preselected t í events. T he P f ’s ob ta in ed above are corrected by w eighting th e d a ta events to th e p T and y sp ec tra of S V T -tagged je ts in t í events. F igure 1(a) shows th e resulting P b and P . We derive th e expected distrib u tio n s for Q 1 and Q 2 by applying th e assignm ent procedure betw een th e SVT- 6 tagged je ts an d th e bh , bl q uarks on sim ulated t t events using our calcu lated P f ’s. T he tru e flavor f of th e SVTtagged je ts is determ in ed from th e sim ulation inform a tion. T he values of qbh an d qbl are o b tain ed by random ly sam pling th e d istrib u tio n of P f for th e corresponding fla vors. A bout 1% of t t can d id ate events contain a SVTtagged light-flavor je t. In th is case th e p.d.f. for qjet is tak en from sim ulation. In th e case of a |q| = 4e/3 exotic q uark, th e expected d istrib u tio n s of exotic quark charge are derived by com puting Q 1 = | — ql + qbl | and Q 2 = |ql + qbh |, following th e sam e procedure as for the SM to p quark. T he u n c e rta in ty on th e m ass of th e to p qu ark [2 1 ] is p ro p a g a te d as a system atic uncertainty. T h e expected d istrib u tio n s of Q 1 an d Q 2 for th e back ground are o b tain ed by i ) perform ing th e assignm ent pro cedure betw een S V T -tagged je ts an d th e bh, bl quarks on Wbb sim ulated events, i i ) using th e tru e je t flavors f to sam ple th e corresponding P f ’s. T he resu ltin g d istrib u tions of Q 1 an d Q 2 for th e background are ad ded to the to p charge d istrib u tio n s in th e SM an d exotic cases. We denote Psm (P ex) th e p .d .f.’s for Q 1 an d Q 2 including the background co n trib u tio n s in th e SM (exotic) case. For 16 of th e 21 selected lepton-plus-jet events, the kinem atic fit converges an d we can assign th e SVTtagged je ts to th e bl an d bh q uarks, th u s providing 32 m easurem ents of th e to p q u ark charge. Figure 1(b) shows th e 32 observed values of Q 1 an d Q 2 overlaid w ith the SM an d exotic charge distrib u tio n s. To discrim inate betw een th e SM an d th e exotic hy potheses, we form th e ra tio of th e likelihood of th e ob served set of charges qi arising from a SM to p q u ark to th e likelihood for th e set of qi arising from th e exotic scenario, A = [ i PsM(qi)] / [n¿ Pex(qi)]. T he subscript i ru n s over all 32 available m easurem ents. T he value of th e ra tio is determ in ed in d a ta an d com pared w ith the expected d istrib u tio n s for A in th e SM an d exotic scenar ios. We find th a t th e observed set of charges agrees well w ith those of a SM to p quark. T he p ro b ab ility of our ob servation is 7.8% in th e case w here th e selected sam ple contains only exotic q uarks w ith charge |q| = 4 e/3 , in cluding sy stem atic uncertain ties. T hus, we exclude a t the 92.2% C.L. th a t th e selected d a ta set is solely com posed of an exotic q u ark w ith |q| = 4 e/3 . T he corresponding expected C.L. is 91.2%. Table I sum m arizes th e dom i n a n t system atic u n certain ties an d th e ir cum ulative effect on th e C.L. It is n o t excluded th a t th e d a ta contain a m ix tu re of two heavy quarks, one w ith |q| = 2 e/3 an d one w ith |q| = 4 e/3 . We perform an u nbinned m axim um likelihood fit to th e observed set of qi in d a ta to d eterm ine th e fraction p of exotic q u a rk pairs. T he likelihood of th e observed set of qi can be expressed as a function of p by N L (pj q) = data ]^[ (1 — p )P SM(qi ) + p P ex (qi ) i =1 (3) S y ste m a tic O bserv ed E x p e c te d S ta tis tic a l u n c e rta in ty only 95.8 95.3 + F ra c tio n of cc ev en ts 95.8 95.2 + C h arg e-flip p in g processes 95.7 95.2 + W eig h tin g w .r.t. p T a n d y s p e c tra 94.4 94.1 + F ra c tio n of flavor c re a tio n 93.7 93.4 + S ta tis tic a l e rro r o n P f 93.3 93.1 + J e t en erg y c a lib ra tio n “ 92.4 91.8 + T op q u a rk m ass 92.2 91.2 “R eference [22]. T A B L E I: E x p e c te d an d observ ed confidence levels as func tio n of th e cu m u la te d sy ste m a tic u n c e rta in tie s. F igure 1(c) shows —ln L as function of p. We fit p = —0.13 ± 0 .6 6 (stat) ± 0.11(syst), consistent w ith th e SM. Using a B ayesian p rio r equal to one in th e physically allowed region 0 < p < 1 an d zero otherw ise, we o b tain 0 < p < 0.52 a t th e 6 8 % C.L. and 0 < p < 0.80 a t the 90% C.L. In sum m ary, we present th e first experim ental discrim in atio n betw een th e 2e/3 and 4 e /3 to p q u ark electric charge scenarios. T he observed to p q u ark charge is con sistent w ith th e SM prediction. T he hypothesis th a t only an exotic q u ark w ith charge |q| = 4 e /3 is produced has been excluded a t th e 92% C.L. We also place an up p er lim it of 0.80 a t th e 90% C.L. on th e fraction of exotic q u ark pairs in th e double tagged lepton-plus-jets sam ple. We th a n k th e staffs a t Ferm ilab and collaborating in stitu tio n s, and acknowledge su p p o rt from th e D O E and NSF (USA); C E A and C N R S /IN 2 P 3 (France); FASI, R osatom and R F B R (Russia); C A PE S, C N Pq, F A P E R J, F A P E S P and FU N D U N E SP (Brazil); DAE and DST (India); Colciencias (Colom bia); C O N A C yT (Mexico); K R F and K O S E F (K orea); C O N IC E T and U B A C yT (A rgentina); FO M (T he N etherlands); P PA R C (U nited K ingdom ); M SM T (Czech R epublic); CRC P rogram , C FI, NSERC and W estG rid P ro je c t (C anada); B M B F and D FG (G erm any); SFI (Ireland); T he Swedish Re search Council (Sweden); R esearch C orporation; A lexan der von H um boldt F oundation; and th e M arie C urie P ro gram . [*] O n leave from IE P SAS K osice, Slovakia. [f] V isito r from H elsinki I n s titu te of P h y sics, H elsinki, F in land. [1] C D F C o lla b o ra tio n , F . A b e et al., P h y s. R ev. 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