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.

Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector / Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D.C., Abud, A.A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D.K., Abidi, S.H., Abouzeid, O.S., Abraham, N.L., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B.S., Achkar, B., Adachi, S., Adam, L., Bourdarios, C.A., Adamczyk, L., Adamek, L., Adelman, J., et al.. - In: THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS. - ISSN 1434-6044. - 81:8(2021), pp. 720.1-720.29. [10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09371-7]

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

Follega, F. M.;Forcolin, G. T.;Iuppa, R.;Ricci, E.;
2021-01-01

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.
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Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abbott, D. C.; Abud, A. A.; Abeling, K.; Abhayasinghe, D. K.; Abidi, S. H.; Abouzeid, O. S.; Abraham, N. L.; Abramowicz, H.; Abre...espandi
Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector / Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D.C., Abud, A.A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D.K., Abidi, S.H., Abouzeid, O.S., Abraham, N.L., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B.S., Achkar, B., Adachi, S., Adam, L., Bourdarios, C.A., Adamczyk, L., Adamek, L., Adelman, J., et al.. - In: THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS. - ISSN 1434-6044. - 81:8(2021), pp. 720.1-720.29. [10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09371-7]
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