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Observation of the associated production of a top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Single top-quark production in association with a Z boson, where the Z boson decays to a pair of charged leptons, is measured in the trilepton channel. The proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment from 2015 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are used, corresponding to...

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Main Authors: Aad, Georges (Author) , Anders, Christoph (Author) , Andrei, George Victor (Author) , Bolz, Arthur (Author) , Dunford, Monica (Author) , Ferreira de Lima, Danilo Enoque (Author) , Franchino, Silvia (Author) , Helary, Louis (Author) , Jongmanns, Jan (Author) , Klassen, Martin (Author) , Krishnan, Anjali (Author) , Kugel, Andreas (Author) , Mkrtchyan, Tigran (Author) , Napolitano, Fabrizio (Author) , Ott, Philipp (Author) , S̜ahinsoy, Merve (Author) , Schöning, André (Author) , Schultz-Coulon, Hans-Christian (Author) , Spieker, Thomas (Author) , Stamen, Rainer (Author) , Starovoitov, Pavel (Author) , Suchek, Stanislav (Author) , Vigani, Luigi (Author) , Weber, Sebastian (Author) , Wessels, Martin (Author) , Yue, Xiaoguang (Author)
Corporate Author: ATLAS Collaboration (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: July 20, 2020
In: Journal of high energy physics
Year: 2020, Issue: 7
ISSN:1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP07(2020)124
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)124
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Summary:Single top-quark production in association with a Z boson, where the Z boson decays to a pair of charged leptons, is measured in the trilepton channel. The proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment from 2015 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Events containing three isolated charged leptons (electrons or muons) and two or three jets, one of which is identified as containing a b-hadron, are selected. The main backgrounds are from tt¯Z and diboson production. Neural networks are used to improve the background rejection and extract the signal. The measured cross-section for tℓ+ℓ−q production, including non-resonant dilepton pairs with mℓ+ℓ− > 30 GeV, is 97 ± 13 (stat.) ± 7 (syst.) fb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction.
Item Description:ATLAS Collaboration: G. Aad, C. Anders, G.V. Andrei, A. Bolz, M. Dunford, D.E. Ferreira de Lima, S. Franchino, L. Helary, J. Jongmanns, M. Klassen, M. Kolb, A. Krishnan, A. Kugel, M. Lisovyi, T. Mkrtchyan, F. Napolitano, P. Ott, M. Sahinsoy, A. Schoening, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, T. Spieker, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, S. Suchek, L. Vigani, S. Weber, M. Wessels, X. Yue [und 2894 weitere]
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ISSN:1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP07(2020)124

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