This book reports on the search for a new heavy particle, the Vector-Like Top quark (VLT), in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The signal events result in top–antitop quarks final states with additional heavy flavour jets. The book summarises the analysis of the data collected with the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016.
Introduction.- The ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.- Reconstruction of physics objects.- Data and Event simulations.- Signal and background modeling.- Optimisations of heavy object tagging and event categorisation.- Analysis strategy.- Systematic uncertainties.- Statistical analysis.- Results.- Discussion.- Prospect.- Conclusion.