@article{94d9f14c93104bcebf19390b868c7057,
title = "Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a Z boson in proton–proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "The production of a top quark in association with a Z boson is investigated. The proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb−1. Events containing three identified leptons (electrons and/or muons) and two jets, one of which is identified as a b-quark jet are selected. The major backgrounds are diboson, tt¯ and Z+jets production. A neural network is used to improve the background rejection and extract the signal. The resulting significance is 4.2σ in the data and the expected significance is 5.4σ. The measured cross-section for tZq production is 600±170(stat.)±140(syst.)fb.",
author = "\{The ATLAS collaboration\} and M. Aaboud and G. Aad and B. Abbott and O. Abdinov and B. Abeloos and Abidi, \{S. H.\} and AbouZeid, \{O. S.\} and Abraham, \{N. L.\} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and R. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, \{B. S.\} and S. Adachi and L. Adamczyk and J. Adelman and M. Adersberger and T. Adye and Affolder, \{A. A.\} and Y. Afik and T. Agatonovic-Jovin and C. Agheorghiesei and Aguilar-Saavedra, \{J. A.\} and Ahlen, \{S. P.\} and F. Ahmadov and G. Aielli and S. Akatsuka and H. Akerstedt and {\AA}kesson, \{T. P.A.\} and E. Akilli and Akimov, \{A. V.\} and Alberghi, \{G. L.\} and J. Albert and P. Albicocco and \{Alconada Verzini\}, \{M. J.\} and Alderweireldt, \{S. C.\} and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, \{I. N.\} and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and B. Ali and M. Aliev and G. Alimonti and J. Alison and Alkire, \{S. P.\} and Allbrooke, \{B. M.M.\} and Citron, \{Z. H.\} and M. Pitt and A. Ashkenazi and L. Barak and G. Bella and Y. Benhammou and T. Cao and E. Etzion and O. Kuprash and Lutz, \{M. S.\} and Y. Oren and A. Soffer and M. Bellomo and S. Cheatham and O. Gabizon and S. Istin and E. Kajomovitz and J. Meyer and Y. Rozen and S. Tarem",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Author(s)",
year = "2018",
month = may,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.023",
language = "American English",
volume = "780",
pages = "557--577",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
}