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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment |
Author: | The, A.C. Aad, G. Abbott, B. Abdallah, J. Abdinov, O. Aben, R. Abolins, M. AbouZeid, O. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, H. Abreu, R. Abulaiti, Y. Acharya, B. Adamczyk, L. Adams, D. Adelman, J. Adomeit, S. Adye, T. Affolder, A. Agatonovic-Jovin, T. et al. |
Citation: | The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016; 2016(1):064-1-064-48 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 1126-6708 1029-8479 |
Statement of Responsibility: | G. Aad ... Paul D. Jackson … Lawrence Lee-Jr … Andreas Petridis … Nitesh Soni … Martin White … et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) |
Abstract: | The cross-section for the production of a single top quark in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at s√=8TeV is measured. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1, collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Events containing two leptons and one central b-jet are selected. The W t signal is separated from the backgrounds using boosted decision trees, each of which combines a number of discriminating variables into one classifier. Production of W t events is observed with a significance of 7.7σ. The cross-section is extracted in a profile likelihood fit to the classifier output distributions. The W t cross-section, inclusive of decay modes, is measured to be 23.0 ± 1.3(stat.) − 3.5 + 3.2 (syst.)±1.1(lumi.) pb. The measured cross-section is used to extract a value for the CKM matrix element |V tb | of 1.01 ± 0.10 and a lower limit of 0.80 at the 95% confidence level. The cross-section for the production of a top quark and a W boson is also measured in a fiducial acceptance requiring two leptons with p T > 25 GeV and |η| < 2.5, one jet with p T > 20 GeV and |η| < 2.5, and E T miss > 20 GeV, including both W t and top-quark pair events as signal. The measured value of the fiducial cross-section is 0.85 ± 0.01(stat.) − 0.07 + 0.07 (syst.)±0.03(lumi.) pb. |
Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering; Top physics |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published under an open access license. Please check the 'Copyright Information' section for details of this license and what re-use is permitted. If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and re-use information, please contact the Rights and Permissions team. |
DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP01(2016)064 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep01(2016)064 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Physics publications |
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