Measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

0577105 - FZÚ 2024 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abbott, D.C. - Chudoba, Jiří - Federičová, Pavla - Hejbal, Jiří - Jačka, Petr - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Latoňová, Věra - Lokajíček, Miloš - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Němeček, Stanislav - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2915 authors
Measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics. Roč. 2023, č. 6 (2023), č. článku 191. ISSN 1029-8479. E-ISSN 1029-8479
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ III - 90240
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : ATLAS * channel cross section: measured * final state: ((n)jet lepton)
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 5.4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access

A measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel is performed in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1−1. The analysis is performed on events with an electron or muon, missing transverse momentum and exactly two b-tagged jets in the final state. A discriminant based on matrix element calculations is used to separate single-top-quark s-channel events from the main background contributions, which are top-quark pair production and W-boson production in association with jets. The observed (expected) signal significance over the background-only hypothesis is 3.3 (3.9) standard deviations, and the measured cross-section is σ=8.2−2.9+3.5σ=8.2−2.9+3.5​ pb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction of σSM=10.32−0.36+0.40σSM=10.32−0.36+0.40​ pb.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0346355