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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(s): The ATLAS collaboration;
  • Aad, G;
  • Abbott, B;
  • Abdallah, J;
  • Abdinov, O;
  • Aben, R;
  • Abolins, M;
  • AbouZeid, OS;
  • Abramowicz, H;
  • Abreu, H;
  • Abreu, R;
  • Abulaiti, Y;
  • Acharya, BS;
  • Adamczyk, L;
  • Adams, DL;
  • Adelman, J;
  • Adomeit, S;
  • Adye, T;
  • Affolder, AA;
  • Agatonovic-Jovin, T;
  • Agricola, J;
  • Aguilar-Saavedra, JA;
  • Ahlen, SP;
  • Ahmadov, F;
  • Aielli, G;
  • Akerstedt, H;
  • Åkesson, TPA;
  • Akimov, AV;
  • Alberghi, GL;
  • Albert, J;
  • Albrand, S;
  • Alconada Verzini, MJ;
  • Aleksa, M;
  • Aleksandrov, IN;
  • Alexa, C;
  • Alexander, G;
  • Alexopoulos, T;
  • Alhroob, M;
  • Alimonti, G;
  • Alio, L;
  • Alison, J;
  • Alkire, SP;
  • Allbrooke, BMM;
  • Allport, PP;
  • Aloisio, A;
  • Alonso, A;
  • Alonso, F;
  • Alpigiani, C;
  • Altheimer, A;
  • Alvarez Gonzalez, B;
  • Álvarez Piqueras, D;
  • Alviggi, MG;
  • Amadio, BT;
  • Amako, K;
  • Amaral Coutinho, Y;
  • Amelung, C;
  • Amidei, D;
  • Amor Dos Santos, SP;
  • Amorim, A;
  • Amoroso, S;
  • Amram, N;
  • Amundsen, G;
  • Anastopoulos, C;
  • Ancu, LS;
  • Andari, N;
  • Andeen, T;
  • Anders, CF;
  • Anders, G;
  • Anders, JK;
  • Anderson, KJ;
  • Andreazza, A;
  • Andrei, V;
  • Angelidakis, S;
  • Angelozzi, I;
  • Anger, P;
  • Angerami, A;
  • Anghinolfi, F;
  • Anisenkov, AV;
  • Anjos, N;
  • Annovi, A;
  • Antonelli, M;
  • Antonov, A;
  • Antos, J;
  • Anulli, F;
  • Aoki, M;
  • Aperio Bella, L;
  • Arabidze, G;
  • Arai, Y;
  • Araque, JP;
  • Arce, ATH;
  • Arduh, FA;
  • Arguin, JF;
  • Argyropoulos, S;
  • Arik, M;
  • Armbruster, AJ;
  • Arnaez, O;
  • Arnold, H;
  • Arratia, M;
  • Arslan, O;
  • Artamonov, A
  • et al.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)064Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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 |Vtb| 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 pT> 25 GeV and |η| < 2.5, one jet with pT> 20 GeV and |η| < 2.5, and ETmiss > 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.

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