Khachatryan, V.Sirunyan, A. M.Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Asilar, E.Bergauer, T.The CMS Collaboration2025-03-072025-03-0720170370-26931873-2445https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.05.019https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12507/3084A search for single production of vector-like top quark partners (T) decaying into a Higgs boson and atop quark is performed using data from pp collisions at acentre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb(-1). The top quark decay includes an electron or a muon while the Higgs boson decays into a pair of b quarks. No significant excess over standard model backgrounds is observed. Exclusion limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching fraction are derived in the T quark mass range 700 to 1800 GeV. For a mass of 1000 GeV, values of the product of the production cross section and the branching fraction greater than 0.8 and 0.7 pb are excluded at 95% confidence level, assuming left-and right-handed coupling of the T quark to standard model particles, respectively. This is the first analysis setting exclusion limits on the cross section of singly produced vector-like T quarks at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. (C) 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCMSB2GVLQTprimeHiggs taggingPhysicsArticle77180105WOS:0004061833000132-s2.0-8503322622510.1016/j.physletb.2017.05.019Q1Q1