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

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.023

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

The ATLAS collaboration

Tel Aviv University, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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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.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	557-577
Number of pages	21
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	780
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.023
State	Published - 10 May 2018

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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. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. 780, 10.05.2018, p. 557-577.

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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

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