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F!r-top events at " LHC
from top-philic new physicsGéraldine SERVANT, CERN-TH
● Léa Gauthier, Anne-Isabelle Etienvre (ATLAS, SPP, CEA Saclay )
paper in preparation, for a short preview see chapter 12, p.137 of 1005.1229
in collaboration with
Four-top production in the Standard Model
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σLHC ~ 7.5 fb @ 14 TeV
➾ 4 top final state sensitive to several classes of new TeV scale physics
88 %
σLHC ~ 0.2 fb @ 7 TeV
e.g. SUSY (gluino pair production with g → t t χ0)~ -
top compositeness
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Low energy effective theory approach
After integrating out heavy resonances, we are left with higher dimensional operators such as
1Λ2
(tRγµtR)(tRγµtR)
leading to:
In particular, well-motivated models where new heavy resonances have a preference for the top quark
[Pomarol-Serra,’08] [Lillie-Shu-Tait,’08]
t t - ν
ν -or
-t
t Z’
gg → tt + Z ′
tt + ET
tttt
Z′ →
νν
Z ′→tt
Z’ has suppressed couplings to light quarks -> no observable resonances
Four-top events from a top-philic and Dark Matter-philic Z’
instead:
Jackson, Servant, Shaughnessy,Tait, Taoso,’09
(DM)(DM)
t t-
4-top production cross sections at the LHC
7 Study of an effective interaction
7.1 A few about theory
In low energy effective theory approch, after integrating out heavy resonances, we are left with higherdimensional operators such as :
1
Λ2(t̄RγµtR)(t̄RγµtR) (11)
leading to :
Fig. 74 – Feynman diagram of the process
7.2 Study of the process
7.2.1 cross section
On the figure ?? is represented the cross section of this process versus Λ for 14TeV in the center ofmass and a renormalisation and factorisation scale of 2mtop.
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s = 14TeV and µ = µF = µR = 2mtop
(a) and superposition of this signal with the Kaluza Zlein model, the Z’ model and the SM (b)
7.2.2 polarisation
On the figure ?? is represented the value of the polarisation of the top (value of the parameter A inthe formula 7). These values are for the distribution of cos(θl+).
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same-sign dilepton channel powerful to get rid of the ttbar bgd
[Contino & Servant, ‘08]promising to search for WW final states from pair
production of heavy quarks (recently used by CDF to put bound on mass of 4th generation b’)
tttt production: similar final state but 2 additional b quarks- -
final state: l± l± + n jets + ET,missing
(of which 4 are b-jets)
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Four-top events from a top-philic Z’
Higgs profile
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BulkUVbrane
IRbrane
!light" SM fields live here
SM sector Composite sector
UV brane Bulk + IR brane
ds2 = e−2kydxµdxνηµν − dy2
RH top
is here
L = LSM − 14F ′
µνF ′µν + M2Z′Z ′
µZ ′µ + iν̄γµDµν + gtRt̄γµPRZ ′µt +
χ
2F ′
µνFµνY
Dµ ≡ ∂µ − i (gνRPR + gν
LPL) Z ′µ
A very simple effective theory
There is a new spontaneously broken U(1)’.The only SM particle with a large coupling to the Z’ is the top quark
This model is inspired by the Randall-Sundrum setup (warped extra dimension):
More generally, in models of partial fermion compositeness, natural to expect that only the top couples sizably to a new strongly interacting sector.
TeV KK modes (such as Z’) have enhanced couplings
to RH top quark
DM
Jackson, Servant, Shaughnessy,Tait, Taoso,’09 Agashe-Servant ’04; Belanger-Pukhov-Servant ’07
(as well as Higgs and DM)
Yukawa hierarchy comes from the hierarchy of compositeness
Partial compositeness: Dual picture
zero mode mass eigen state is mixture of elementary and composite
Higgs is part of composite sector: it couples only to composite fermions
massless
SM sectorstrong sectorEWSBelementary fermions: χ
Higgsheavy fermions: ψ
vector resonances: ρ
linear mixing
massive
amount of compositeness in the light dof
|light >L= cos φ|χL > +sinφ|ψL >|heavy >L= − sinφ|χL > +cos φ|ψL >
|heavy >R= |ψR >
−∆χLψR
tanφ =∆M∗
pp->ttZ’->tttt production cross section-- -
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Cross section of the process
We work with √s = 14 TeV
We have : = 838 fb for m(Z') = 500GeV!
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Fig. 19 – distribution of the maximum of the distribution M(tt̄) for a random combination versus themass of the Z’
Thanks to a fit on the figure 19 we find this dependance is linear and the parameters are :– origin of the curve : 306.5 ± 74.97– slope of the curve : 0.379 ± 0.12
3.3.3 Angle between the quarks
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For low Z’ masses the quarks are emitted with low angles due to small values of the transverse momen-tum and for higher masses it is the contrary. For the SM we take the random combination. For this figurethe curves are normalized to 1.
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Fig. 17 – distribution of the invariant mass Mtt̄ for different masses of the Z’ with a luminosity of 200pb−1
(a) and distribution of this mass for the highest top and the highest antitop (b)
The figure 17 represents the invariant mass Mtt̄ when the top/antitop comes from the Z’. This studyhas been done for different masses of the Z’ and for 14TeV in the COM. We see here that the maximum ofthe distribution depends on the mass of the Z’.For the SM we use a random combination corresponding to all possible combinations between the tops andantitops and we take the average of this mass.
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The figure 18 represents the distribution of the mass Mtt̄ for the tt̄ from the Z’ and the spectator tt̄
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t t invariant mass versus MZ’-
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3.3.4 top polarisation [4]
The polarisation of the top quarks is studied from the angular distribution of their decay products. Inthe decay channel t → W+b → l+ν the angular distribution of the particle X (X = W+, l+, ν) is given by :
1
Γ
dΓ
d cos θX=
1
2(1 + αX cos θX) (6)
where θX is the angle between the direction of X and the top spin axis in the top rest frame.
The constants αX take the values [8] :– αl+ = αd̄ = 1– αν = αu = −0.32– αW+ = −αb = 0.41
From the equation 6 we obtain the top production differential cross-section :
1
σ
dσ
d cos θX= FR + FL =
A
2(1 + αX cos θX) +
1 − A
2(1 − αX cos θX) = (A −
1
2)αX cos θX +
1
2(7)
top production differential cross-section
We study here the distribution of cos θl+ for M(Z’)=800 GeV and 14 TeV in the COM. For the SM wetake the lepton coming from the top with the highest Pt.
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Fig. 21 – distribution of cos(θ) for the Exotic Model with a top right and for the SM
With a fit on the figure 21 thanks to the formula 7, we find :– A # 0.78 ± 0.18 for the exotic model with a right top– A # 0.50 ± 0.11 for the SM.
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The value of the parameter A depends on the value of the mass of Z’. We can see this dependance onthe figure 22.
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The value of the parameter A decrease at low masses of the Z’ because at low transverse momentumthe spin of the lepton has time to flip. For high masses of the Z’, the maximum value at 0.8 is due the massof the top [9]. If the top was massless we can expect that A ∼ 1.
3.3.5 Spin correlation
We consider here the distribution
1
N
d2N
d cos θ1.d cos θ2=
1
4(1 − A cos θ1 cos θ2 + b1 cos θ1 + b2 cos θ2) (8)
where θx is the angle between the direction of the lepton x in the top frame and the direction of thetop.We study here the same sign dilepton decay (the explanation about the choice of this channel is given inthe chapter 6).The leptons 1 and 2 represent the 2 leptons of same sign in the final state.
This distribution doesn’t depends on the mass of the Z’ for the top-philic model. But the distriutionfor the SM is very different. We have here a discriminant variable.
After a fit on the figure 23 we find the coefficients A, b1 and b2 of the formula 8.
- Z’(500GeV) Z’(1TeV) Z’(1.5TeV) SMA -0.25 -0.23 -0.31 0.038b1 0.44 0.55 0.54 -0.0073b2 0.41 0.55 0.60 -0.03
Tab. 2 – Value of the coefficient A for the SM and the signal for differents masses of Z’
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top polarization
The lightest mass eigenstate is identified as the top quark. It can have a large coupling to Z ′ through its
ψ component.
Four-top production arises via the diagrams shown in Fig. 3. Given that the Z ′ under consideration
has suppressed couplings to all SM fields (induced by the kinetic mixing χ) but the top quarks, constraintsare weak and a mass of a few hundreds of GeV is allowed, which can lead to large four-top signals at the
LHC. A detailed study is presented in [14] and compares with the non-resonant four-top events obtained
from the effective four-fermion interaction (tRγµtR)(tRγµtR)/Λ2 leading to the diagram 1(d). The
corresponding cross sections at LHC as a function of the Z ′ mass and Λ are shown in Fig. 2.
t
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An interesting way to probe the properties of the top interactions relies on measuring the top
polarization. The SM four top production being dominated by parity invariant QCD processes, we expect
to generate an equal number of left and right-handed pairs. However, in the new physics models discussed
here, there is a strong bias towards RH tops. The angular distribution of the leptons from the top decays
enables to analyze the polarisation of the top quarks. The differential cross section can be written as
1
σ
dσ
d cos θ=
A
2(1 + cos θ) +
1 − A
2(1 − cos θ) (3)
where θ is the angle between the direction of the lepton in the top rest frame and the direction of the toppolarization. The corresponding distribution is illustrated in Fig. 4.
In Fig. 5, we show the invariant mass Mtt of the tt pair coming from the Z ′ for different MZ′
masses as well as Mtt from the SM four-top events. The latter peaks close to 600 GeV. We also display
the maximum of the tt pair transverse energy distribution as a function ofMZ′ . Fig. 6 compares theMtt
distributions of the tt pair emitted by a Z ′ withMZ′ = 1.2 TeV, the spectator tt pair, which peaks around500 GeV and the tt pair produced by the effective 4-fermion contact interaction.
3. RECONSTRUCTION
Reconstruction of four top events is a challenge to the detector and event reconstruction. The decay of the
top quarks gives rise to twelve fermions. To benefit from the same-sign lepton signature two W bosons
must decay to lepton-neutrino. The presence of two escaping neutrinos then prevents a complete recon-
struction of the twelve momenta. In the most abundantly produced final states, most of the remaining
fermions will be quarks, giving rise to a large jet multiplicity.
The minimal approach to reconstruction merely registers the scalar sum of the transverse energy
of all final state objects. The HT distribution for a 500 GeV and 1 TeV Z’ resonance as described in
the previous section are shown in Figure 7. For sufficiently large resonance mass, i.e. for mZ′ = 1
TeV in the central panel, the signal distribution clearly differs from that of some important (reducible)
backgrounds like tt̄W±+ jets and tt̄W+W−.
A further experimental signature of the four-top final states is the large b-jet multiplicity which
can be used as a powerful tool to extract the signal even coming from a heavy resonance as shown in
θ is the angle between the direction of the (highest pT) lepton in the top rest frame and the direction of the top polarisation
A: fraction of RH tops
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3.3.6 Opening angle
The opening angle is the angle between the momentum of the lepton l+ in the top frame and themomentum of the lepton l− in the antitop frame.We see on the figure 24 that this variable is not discriminant.
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Spin correlations3.3.5 Spin correlation
We consider here the distribution
1
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for the SM)
2!).dcos(
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N1
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Fig. 24 – distribution of d2Nd cos θ1.d cos θ2
for different masses of the Z’ (a) to (c) and for the SM (d)
This distribution doesn’t depends on the mass of the Z’ for the top-philic model. But the distriutionfor the SM is very different. We have here a discriminant variable.
After a fit on the figure 24 we find the coefficients A, b1 and b2 of the formula 8.
- Z’(500GeV) Z’(1TeV) Z’(1.5TeV) SMA -0.14±0.29 -0.22±0.27 -0.26±0.23 -0.11±0.3b1 0.43±0.32 0.56±0.32 0.64±0.29 -0.0051±0.29b2 0.53±0.32 0.61±0.31 0.57±0.33 -0.03±0.29
Tab. 2 – Value of the coefficient A, b1 and b2 for the SM and the signal for differents masses of Z’
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3.3.5 Spin correlation
We consider here the distribution
1
N
d2N
d cos θ1.d cos θ2=
1
4(1 − A cos θ1 cos θ2 + b1 cos θ1 + b2 cos θ2) (8)
where θx is the angle between the direction of the lepton x in the top frame and the direction of thetop.We study here the same sign dilepton decay (the explanation about the choice of this channel is given inthe chapter 6).The leptons 1 and 2 represent the 2 leptons of same sign in the final state.
cos theta1-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1cos theta2
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for the SM)
2!).dcos(
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Fig. 24 – distribution of d2Nd cos θ1.d cos θ2
for different masses of the Z’ (a) to (c) and for the SM (d)
This distribution doesn’t depends on the mass of the Z’ for the top-philic model. But the distriutionfor the SM is very different. We have here a discriminant variable.
After a fit on the figure 24 we find the coefficients A, b1 and b2 of the formula 8.
- Z’(500GeV) Z’(1TeV) Z’(1.5TeV) SMA -0.14±0.29 -0.22±0.27 -0.26±0.23 -0.11±0.3b1 0.43±0.32 0.56±0.32 0.64±0.29 -0.0051±0.29b2 0.53±0.32 0.61±0.31 0.57±0.33 -0.03±0.29
Tab. 2 – Value of the coefficient A, b1 and b2 for the SM and the signal for differents masses of Z’
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similar final state studied in Contino-Servant' 08
background in same-sign dilepton channel @LHC
final state: l± l± + n jets + ET
(of which 4 are b-jets)
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tt+jets with charge mis-ID not included here (but will be)-
6.2 Study with the jets
We work here with a b-efficiency of 100% and no mistage for the light jets.
6.2.1 Study on the jets
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Fig. 53 – Distribution of the total number of jets for Pt > 30GeV (a), distribution of the number of b jetsfor Pt > 15GeV (b) and distribution of the total number of jets for different masses of the Z’ (c). Thesedistributions are normalized to 1 and the jet cone size is ∆R = 0.4.
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6.2 Study with the jets
We work here with a b-efficiency of 100% and no mistage for the light jets.
6.2.1 Study on the jets
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Fig. 53 – Distribution of the total number of jets for Pt > 30GeV (a), distribution of the number of b jetsfor Pt > 15GeV (b) and distribution of the total number of jets for different masses of the Z’ (c). Thesedistributions are normalized to 1 and the jet cone size is ∆R = 0.4.
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# of jets
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Fig. 7: Total transverse energy after demanding nj ≥ 6, pT > 30 GeV (first two plots) and in addition nb−jet ≥ 3
(third plot).
tt̄H topology. An alternative approach presents itself when one considers the reconstruction of tt̄ eventsoriginating in the decay of a heavy resonance. Due to the boost of the top quark, its decay products
are collimated in a narrow cone. This top mono-jet can be identified as such by techniques revealing
the jet substructure [15, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19]. Importantly, for sufficiently large resonance mass the decay
products of top and anti-top are cleanly separated. A simple assignment based on (geometrical) vicinity
is sufficient to find the correct assignment of jets to top candidates. Thus, the ambiguities found in
reconstruction of “tops at rest” disappear in regime of large top pT .
To quantify this statement a parton level simulation of pp → X → tt̄ has been analysed. Lep-ton+jets events are selected, where one of the W bosons decays to a lepton and a neutrino and the second
MZ′ = 500 GeV MZ′ = 1 TeV
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random combination for M(Z’)=1.2TeV
SM
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Fig. 7: Total transverse energy after demanding nj ≥ 6, pT > 30 GeV (first two plots) and in addition nb−jet ≥ 3
(third plot).
tt̄H topology. An alternative approach presents itself when one considers the reconstruction of tt̄ eventsoriginating in the decay of a heavy resonance. Due to the boost of the top quark, its decay products
are collimated in a narrow cone. This top mono-jet can be identified as such by techniques revealing
the jet substructure [15, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19]. Importantly, for sufficiently large resonance mass the decay
products of top and anti-top are cleanly separated. A simple assignment based on (geometrical) vicinity
is sufficient to find the correct assignment of jets to top candidates. Thus, the ambiguities found in
reconstruction of “tops at rest” disappear in regime of large top pT .
To quantify this statement a parton level simulation of pp → X → tt̄ has been analysed. Lep-ton+jets events are selected, where one of the W bosons decays to a lepton and a neutrino and the second
with b-tagging efficiency=1
6.3 Study with a b-efficiency of 60% (extrapolation).
In order to extrapolate the results for an efficiency of 60%, we renormalize the distributions with nb-jets by 0.6n.In the figure ?? the distributions for one b-efficiency are added.
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Fig. 69 – Distribution of HT for b-efficiency=100% and b-efficiency=60% for nb total jets ≥ 6, nb b jets≥3 and pT > 30GeV
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Fig. 70 – Distribution of HT if b-efficiency=60% for nb total jets ≥ 6, nb b jets ≥3 and pT > 30GeV
In the table ?? are reported the number of events and background extrapolated for a b-efficiency of60% :
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MZ’ =500 GeV 5σ excess luminosity~ 150 pb-1
MZ’ =1 TeV 5σ excess luminosity~ 25 fb-1
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preliminary
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for M(Z’)=1.2TeVtspectator t
random combination for M(Z’)=1.2TeV
SM
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+ jets±W-
W+pp -> W + jets±W±pp -> W
Fig. 7: Total transverse energy after demanding nj ≥ 6, pT > 30 GeV (first two plots) and in addition nb−jet ≥ 3
(third plot).
tt̄H topology. An alternative approach presents itself when one considers the reconstruction of tt̄ eventsoriginating in the decay of a heavy resonance. Due to the boost of the top quark, its decay products
are collimated in a narrow cone. This top mono-jet can be identified as such by techniques revealing
the jet substructure [15, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19]. Importantly, for sufficiently large resonance mass the decay
products of top and anti-top are cleanly separated. A simple assignment based on (geometrical) vicinity
is sufficient to find the correct assignment of jets to top candidates. Thus, the ambiguities found in
reconstruction of “tops at rest” disappear in regime of large top pT .
To quantify this statement a parton level simulation of pp → X → tt̄ has been analysed. Lep-ton+jets events are selected, where one of the W bosons decays to a lepton and a neutrino and the second
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quarks in tt̄ production (open circles) and tt̄tt̄ production. The filled circles (triangles) indicate the probability to find two
(four) correctly paired top quarks. The central panel shows the invariant mass distribution of the two top quarks with highest
pT in SM tt̄tt̄ production (filled histogram) and for production through a 1.5 TeV KK gluon. The rightmost panel shows the
invariant mass of the two reconstructed clusters with highest pT .
W boson decay to two jets. The neutrino is discarded and the momenta of the remaining five fermions
is presented to the kT algorithm [20, 21] for clustering 3. Clustering is considered correct whenever
all decay products from the top (and anti-top) quark are clustered together in a single jet. The result is
represented with open circles in the leftmost plot of figure 8. For tops produced at rest the probability
of correctly clustering the event is essentially equal to 0. For resonant tt̄ production the probability tofind the correct assignment increases rapidly as the resonance mass is increased. The decay products of
the top and anti-top quark are collimated more and more in a narrow cone, while the top anti-top are
emitted essentially back-to-back. Indeed, for a resonance mass of 1 TeV, the correct assignment is found
in nearly eighty percent of events. For a more exhaustive discussion, and results including a complete
detector simulation the reader is referred to reference [23].
When repeating the exercise for tt̄tt̄ production, the simple clustering has to deal with a muchdenser topology and is much less successful. As shown with blue triangles in figure 8 the probability to
find a perfectly clustered event is less than 10 % over the entire mass range studied here. Of course, the
decay of a heavy resonance leads to only one pair of strongly boosted top quarks, while the pT of the
associated (spectator) top quarks remains relatively small. The third curve (filled circles) in 8 represents
the probability that at least two tops out of four are clustered correctly. This probability is quite large
even for relatively small resonance mass, reaching approximately 60 % for a 1 TeV resonance.
The mass of the resonance is reconstructed as the invariant mass of the two objects with highest
pT in the event. At the parton level this yields good results: the combination of the two top quarks
with highest pT yields the distribution of the central panel of figure 8. The resonance clearly stands out
on top of the SM four top production (black). Applying the same criterion to the top quark candidates
reconstructed by the clustering algorithm, the distribution in the rightmost panel is obtained. Obviously,
the resonant signature is washed out by false combinations and the energy carried away by the escaping
neutrinos. Still, the signal and background distributions can clearly be distinguished.
The additional handle of highly boosted top quarks is found to be quite useful to reduce the com-
binatoric problem of four top events. Reconstruction of a resonant signature may well be feasible, thus
turning the counting experiment into a resonance search. Given the simple-minded nature of this attempt
3The implementation in FastJet [22] was used, with E-scheme recombination. The algorithms was used in exclusive mode,
forcing it to return exactly two jets. The R-parameter was set to 2.5. For this, somewhat unusual, choice nearly all input objects
are clustered into jets (rather than included in the “beam jets”).
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quarks in tt̄ production (open circles) and tt̄tt̄ production. The filled circles (triangles) indicate the probability to find two
(four) correctly paired top quarks. The central panel shows the invariant mass distribution of the two top quarks with highest
pT in SM tt̄tt̄ production (filled histogram) and for production through a 1.5 TeV KK gluon. The rightmost panel shows the
invariant mass of the two reconstructed clusters with highest pT .
W boson decay to two jets. The neutrino is discarded and the momenta of the remaining five fermions
is presented to the kT algorithm [20, 21] for clustering 3. Clustering is considered correct whenever
all decay products from the top (and anti-top) quark are clustered together in a single jet. The result is
represented with open circles in the leftmost plot of figure 8. For tops produced at rest the probability
of correctly clustering the event is essentially equal to 0. For resonant tt̄ production the probability tofind the correct assignment increases rapidly as the resonance mass is increased. The decay products of
the top and anti-top quark are collimated more and more in a narrow cone, while the top anti-top are
emitted essentially back-to-back. Indeed, for a resonance mass of 1 TeV, the correct assignment is found
in nearly eighty percent of events. For a more exhaustive discussion, and results including a complete
detector simulation the reader is referred to reference [23].
When repeating the exercise for tt̄tt̄ production, the simple clustering has to deal with a muchdenser topology and is much less successful. As shown with blue triangles in figure 8 the probability to
find a perfectly clustered event is less than 10 % over the entire mass range studied here. Of course, the
decay of a heavy resonance leads to only one pair of strongly boosted top quarks, while the pT of the
associated (spectator) top quarks remains relatively small. The third curve (filled circles) in 8 represents
the probability that at least two tops out of four are clustered correctly. This probability is quite large
even for relatively small resonance mass, reaching approximately 60 % for a 1 TeV resonance.
The mass of the resonance is reconstructed as the invariant mass of the two objects with highest
pT in the event. At the parton level this yields good results: the combination of the two top quarks
with highest pT yields the distribution of the central panel of figure 8. The resonance clearly stands out
on top of the SM four top production (black). Applying the same criterion to the top quark candidates
reconstructed by the clustering algorithm, the distribution in the rightmost panel is obtained. Obviously,
the resonant signature is washed out by false combinations and the energy carried away by the escaping
neutrinos. Still, the signal and background distributions can clearly be distinguished.
The additional handle of highly boosted top quarks is found to be quite useful to reduce the com-
binatoric problem of four top events. Reconstruction of a resonant signature may well be feasible, thus
turning the counting experiment into a resonance search. Given the simple-minded nature of this attempt
3The implementation in FastJet [22] was used, with E-scheme recombination. The algorithms was used in exclusive mode,
forcing it to return exactly two jets. The R-parameter was set to 2.5. For this, somewhat unusual, choice nearly all input objects
are clustered into jets (rather than included in the “beam jets”).
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Summary
four-tops: key channel to probe top compositeness (although not at 7 TeV)
we found good prospects in the very clean 2 same-sign dilepton channel
b-tagging crucial to probe the O(10 fb) cross sections
future plans: full ATLAS simulation (events already generated at 7 TeV)
four-top events: in a large class of BSM models (susy, top composite models, top-philic resonances )
so far, there was no detailed study