Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

Autores
Alconada Verzini, María Josefina; Alonso, Francisco; Arduh, Francisco Anuar; Dova, María Teresa; Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel; Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo; The ATLAS Collaboration
Año de publicación
2016
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The cross-section for the production of a single top quark in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV 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 Wt signal is separated from the backgrounds using boosted decision trees, each of which combines a number of discriminating variables into one classifier. Production of Wt 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 Wt cross-section, inclusive of decay modes, is measured to be 23.0±1.3 (stat.)+3.2 -3.5 (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 Emiss T > 20 GeV, including both Wt and top-quark pair events as signal. The measured value of the fiducial cross-section is 0.85±0.01(stat.)+0.06 -0.07(syst.)± 0.03(lumi.) pb.
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Ciencias Exactas
Física
hadron-hadron scattering
top physics
top quark
w boson
proton-proton collisions
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spelling Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experimentAlconada Verzini, María JosefinaAlonso, FranciscoArduh, Francisco AnuarDova, María TeresaMonticelli, Fernando GabrielWahlberg, Hernán PabloThe ATLAS CollaborationCiencias ExactasFísicahadron-hadron scatteringtop physicstop quarkw bosonproton-proton collisionsThe cross-section for the production of a single top quark in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV 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 Wt signal is separated from the backgrounds using boosted decision trees, each of which combines a number of discriminating variables into one classifier. Production of Wt 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 Wt cross-section, inclusive of decay modes, is measured to be 23.0±1.3 (stat.)+3.2 -3.5 (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 Emiss T > 20 GeV, including both Wt and top-quark pair events as signal. The measured value of the fiducial cross-section is 0.85±0.01(stat.)+0.06 -0.07(syst.)± 0.03(lumi.) pb.Facultad de Ciencias Exactas2016-01-11info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionArticulohttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/79232enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1029-8479info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)064info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)reponame:SEDICI (UNLP)instname:Universidad Nacional de La Platainstacron:UNLP2025-09-29T11:12:08Zoai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/79232Institucionalhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/Universidad públicaNo correspondehttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/oai/snrdalira@sedici.unlp.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:13292025-09-29 11:12:08.579SEDICI (UNLP) - Universidad Nacional de La Platafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
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
spellingShingle Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Ciencias Exactas
Física
hadron-hadron scattering
top physics
top quark
w boson
proton-proton collisions
title_short Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
title_full Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
title_fullStr Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
title_full_unstemmed Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
title_sort Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Alonso, Francisco
Arduh, Francisco Anuar
Dova, María Teresa
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The ATLAS Collaboration
author Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
author_facet Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Alonso, Francisco
Arduh, Francisco Anuar
Dova, María Teresa
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The ATLAS Collaboration
author_role author
author2 Alonso, Francisco
Arduh, Francisco Anuar
Dova, María Teresa
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The ATLAS Collaboration
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Exactas
Física
hadron-hadron scattering
top physics
top quark
w boson
proton-proton collisions
topic Ciencias Exactas
Física
hadron-hadron scattering
top physics
top quark
w boson
proton-proton collisions
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The cross-section for the production of a single top quark in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV 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 Wt signal is separated from the backgrounds using boosted decision trees, each of which combines a number of discriminating variables into one classifier. Production of Wt 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 Wt cross-section, inclusive of decay modes, is measured to be 23.0±1.3 (stat.)+3.2 -3.5 (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 Emiss T > 20 GeV, including both Wt and top-quark pair events as signal. The measured value of the fiducial cross-section is 0.85±0.01(stat.)+0.06 -0.07(syst.)± 0.03(lumi.) pb.
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas
description The cross-section for the production of a single top quark in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV 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 Wt signal is separated from the backgrounds using boosted decision trees, each of which combines a number of discriminating variables into one classifier. Production of Wt 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 Wt cross-section, inclusive of decay modes, is measured to be 23.0±1.3 (stat.)+3.2 -3.5 (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 Emiss T > 20 GeV, including both Wt and top-quark pair events as signal. The measured value of the fiducial cross-section is 0.85±0.01(stat.)+0.06 -0.07(syst.)± 0.03(lumi.) pb.
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