Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

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Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

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The production cross-section of a top quark in association with a W boson is measured using proton–proton collisions at s=8TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.2fb-1, and was collected in 2012 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The analysis is performed in the single-lepton channel. Events are selected by requiring one isolated lepton (electron or muon) and at least three jets. A neural network is trained to separate the tW signal from the dominant tt¯ background. The cross-section is extracted from a binned profile maximum-likelihood fit to a two-dimensional discriminant built from the neural-network output and the invariant mass of the hadronically decaying W boson. The measured cross-section is σtW=26±7pb, in good agreement with the Standard Model expectation.

Original language	English
Article number	720
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	81
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09371-7
State	Published - Aug 2021

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BSF-NSF
CEA-DRF
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Czech Republic
DNSRC	IN2P3-CNRS
EU-ESF
GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain
IRFU
La Caixa Banking Foundation
MES of Russia
MESTD
MIZŠ
MSMT
MSSR
PROMETEO
RGC
VSC CR
Wallenberg Foundation
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
Canarie
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
CERN
Glycemic Index Foundation
Göran Gustafssons Stiftelser
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
National Research Council Canada
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
European Research Council
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Australian Research Council
Neurosurgical Research Foundation
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Austrian Science Fund
Generalitat de Catalunya
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel Science Foundation
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Horizon 2020
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
European Regional Development Fund
Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
Institut de Valorisation des Données

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Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

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