Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at √s=7TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.011

Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at √s=7TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik
University of Freiburg
University of Oklahoma
Institute for High Energy Physics
Université Paris-Sud and CNRS/IN2P3
Section de Physique
University of Geneva
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Oklahoma State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
CEA Saclay (Commissariat a lʼEnergie Atomique)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
University of Milan
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science
AGH University of Krakow
United States Department of Energy
Department of Physics
Hampton University
Yale University
Fakultät für Physik
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
School of Physics and Astronomy
Queen Mary University of London
Didcot
Department of Physics
Brandeis University
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE
University of Granada
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Boston University
Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry
Stony Brook University
Physics Department
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Department of Physics
Bogazici University
Fysiska Institutionen
Lund University
International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics
The University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kobe University
SUNY Albany
Department of Physics
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Victoria BC
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
CERN
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Physics Department
National Technical University of Athens
Dipartimento di Chimica
University of Udine
Department of Physics
Humboldt University of Berlin
University of Pennsylvania
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham

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This Letter presents evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark using 2.05 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data at s=7TeV accumulated with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on the selection of the dileptonic final states with events featuring two isolated leptons, electron or muon, with significant transverse missing momentum and at least one jet. An approach based on boosted decision trees has been developed to improve the discrimination of single top-quark Wt events from background. A template fit to the final classifier distributions is performed to determine the cross-section. The result is incompatible with the background-only hypothesis at the 3.3σ level, the expected sensitivity assuming the Standard Model production rate being 3.4σ. The corresponding cross-section is determined and found to be σ_Wt=16.8±2.9 (stat)±4.9 (syst) pb, in good agreement with the Standard Model expectation. From this result the CKM matrix element |V_tb|=1.03_−0.19 ^+0.16 is derived assuming that the Wt production through |V_ts| and |V_td| is small.

源语言	英语
页（从-至）	142-159
页数	18
期刊	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
卷	716
期	1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.011
出版状态	已出版 - 17 9月 2012
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Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at √s=7TeV

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