Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

UNSPECIFIED (2021) Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 81 (8): 720. ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

The production cross-section of a top quark in association with a W boson is measured using proton–proton collisions at s=8TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.2fb-1, and was collected in 2012 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The analysis is performed in the single-lepton channel. Events are selected by requiring one isolated lepton (electron or muon) and at least three jets. A neural network is trained to separate the tW signal from the dominant tt¯ background. The cross-section is extracted from a binned profile maximum-likelihood fit to a two-dimensional discriminant built from the neural-network output and the invariant mass of the hadronically decaying W boson. The measured cross-section is σtW=26±7pb, in good agreement with the Standard Model expectation.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? physics and astronomy (miscellaneous)engineering (miscellaneous) ??
ID Code:
161551
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Deposited On:
27 Oct 2021 08:30
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Yes
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Published
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14 Feb 2024 01:32