# Boosted event topologies from TeV scale light quark composite partners

Mihailo Backović, Thomas Flacke, Jeong Han Kim, Seung Joon Lee

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### Abstract

Abstract: We propose a new search strategy for quark partners which decay into a boosted Higgs and a light quark. As an example, we consider phenomenologically viable right handed up-type quark partners of mass ∼ 1 TeV in composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-boson Higgs models within the context of flavorful naturalness. Our results show that S/B > 1 and signal significance of ∼ 7σ is achievable at s=14$$\sqrt{s}=14$$ TeV LHC with 35 fb−1 of integrated luminosity, sufficient to claim discovery of a new particle. A combination of a multi-dimensional boosted Higgs tagging technique, kinematics of pair produced heavy objects and b-tagging serves to efficiently diminish the large QCD backgrounds while maintaining adequate levels of signal efficiency. We present the analysis in the context of effective field theory, such that our results can be applied to any future search for pair produced vector-like quarks with decay modes to Higgs and a light jet.

Original language English 82 Journal of High Energy Physics 2015 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2015)082 Published - 2015 Apr 1

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### Keywords

• Beyond Standard Model
• Higgs Physics
• Technicolor and Composite Models

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Boosted event topologies from TeV scale light quark composite partners. / Backović, Mihailo; Flacke, Thomas; Kim, Jeong Han; Lee, Seung Joon.

In: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, No. 4, 82, 01.04.2015.

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Backović, Mihailo ; Flacke, Thomas ; Kim, Jeong Han ; Lee, Seung Joon. / Boosted event topologies from TeV scale light quark composite partners. In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015 ; Vol. 2015, No. 4.
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