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Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a $W$ boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

G. Aad (1) , S. Albrand (2) , J. Collot (2) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (2) , P.A. Delsart (2) , C. Gabaldon (2) , M.H. Genest (2) , J.Y. Hostachy (2) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (2) , A. Lleres (2) , A. Lucotte (2) , F. Malek (2) , C. Monini (2) , J. Stark (2) , B. Trocmé (2) , M. Wu (2) , G. Rahal (3) , M.K. Ayoub (4) , A. Bassalat (4) , C. Bécot (4) , S. Binet (4) , C. Bourdarios (4) , D. Delgove (4) , J.-B. de Vivie de Regie (4) , L. Duflot (4) , M. Escalier (4) , L. Fayard (4) , D. Fournier (4) , E.L. Gkougkousis (4) , J-F. Grivaz (4) , T. Guillemin (4) , F. Hariri (4) , S. Henrot-Versille (4) , J. Hrivnac (4) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (4) , M. Kado (4) , A. Lounis (4) , N. Makovec (4) , N. Morange (4) , C. Nellist (4) , P. Petroff (4) , L. Poggioli (4) , P. Puzo (4) , A. Renaud (4) , D. Rousseau (4) , G. Rybkin (4) , A.C. Schaffer (4) , E. Scifo (4) , L. Serin (4) , S. Simion (4) , R. Tanaka (4) , D. Zerwas (4) , Zhongkai Zhang (4) , Y. Zhao (4) , Z. Barnovska (5) , N. Berger (5) , M. Delmastro (5) , L. Di Ciaccio (5) , S. Elles (5) , C. Goy (5) , T. Hryn’ova (5) , S. Jézéquel (5) , I. Koletsou (5) , R. Lafaye (5) , Jérémy Lévêque (5) , N. Massol (5) , P. Mastrandea (5) , G. Sauvage (5) , E. Sauvan (5) , O. Simard (5) , T. Todorov (5) , I. Wingerter-Seez (5) , E. Yatsenko (5) , D. Boumediene (6) , E. Busato (6) , D. Calvet (6) , S. Calvet (6) , J. Donini (6) , E. Dubreuil (6) , N. Ghodbane (6) , G. Gilles (6) , Ph. Gris (6) , C. Guicheney (6) , H. Liao (6) , D. Pallin (6) , F. Podlyski (6) , C. Santoni (6) , D. Simon (6) , T. Theveneaux-Pelzer (6) , L. Valéry (6) , F. Vazeille (6) , L. Alio (1) , M. Barbero (1) , Y. Coadou (1) , C. Diaconu (1) , Sara Diglio (1) , F. Djama (1) , L. Feligioni (1) , J. Gao (1) , G.D. Hallewell (1) , F. Hubaut (1) , S.J. Kahn (1) , E.B.F.G. Knoops (1) , E. Le Guirriec (1) , J. Liu (1) , K. Liu (1) , D. Madaffari (1) , K. Mochizuki (1) , E. Monnier (1) , S. Muanza (1) , Y. Nagai (1) , E. Nagy (1) , P. Pralavorio (1) , A. Rozanov (1) , T. Serre (1) , M. Talby (1) , R.E. Ticse Torres (1) , E. Tiouchichine (1) , S. Tisserant (1) , J. Toth (1) , F. Touchard (1) , L. Vacavant (1)
G. Aad
D. Rousseau
N. Berger
C. Goy
T. Hryn’ova
Y. Coadou

Résumé

The cross-section for the production of a single top quark in association with a $W$ boson in proton--proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 8$ TeV is measured. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$, collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Events containing two leptons and one central $b$-jet are selected. The $Wt$ signal is separated from the backgrounds using boosted decision trees, each of which combines a number of discriminating variables into one classifier. Production of $Wt$ events is observed with a significance of $7.7 \sigma$. The cross-section is extracted in a profile likelihood fit to the classifier output distributions. The $Wt$ cross-section, inclusive of decay modes, is measured to be $23.0 \pm 1.3$(stat.)$^{+3.2}_{-3.5}$(syst.)$\pm 1.1$(lumi.) pb. The measured cross-section is used to extract a value for the CKM matrix element $|V_{tb}|$ of $1.01 \pm 0.10$ and a lower limit of 0.80 at the 95\% confidence level. The cross-section for the production of a top quark and a $W$ boson is also measured in a fiducial acceptance requiring two leptons with $p_{\textrm{T}}>25$ GeV and $|\eta|<2.5$, one jet with $p_{\textrm{T}}>20$ GeV and $|\eta|<2.5$, and $E_{\textrm{T}}^{\textrm{miss}}>20$ GeV, including both $Wt$ and top-quark pair events as signal. The measured value of the fiducial cross-section is $0.85 \pm 0.01$(stat.)$^{+0.06}_{-0.07}$(syst.)$\pm 0.03$(lumi.) pb.

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in2p3-01215349 , version 1 (14-10-2015)

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G. Aad, S. Albrand, J. Collot, S. Crépé-Renaudin, P.A. Delsart, et al.. Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a $W$ boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016, 01, pp.064. ⟨10.1007/JHEP01(2016)064⟩. ⟨in2p3-01215349⟩
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