A search for flavour changing neutral currents in top-quark decays in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

G. Aad; Mogens Dam; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Peter Henrik Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; John Renner Hansen; Esben Bryndt Klinkby; Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Troels Christian Petersen; Björn Stefan Nilsson; Sascha Mehlhase; Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Stefania Xella

doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2012)139

A search for flavour changing neutral currents in top-quark decays in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

G. Aad, Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, John Renner Hansen, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Troels Christian Petersen, Björn Stefan Nilsson, Sascha Mehlhase, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Stefania Xella

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A search for flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) processes in top-quark decays by the ATLAS Collaboration is presented. Data collected from pp collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV during 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb^-1, were used. A search was performed for top-quark pair-production events, with one top quark decaying through the t → Zq FCNC (q = u, c) channel, and the other through the Standard Model dominant mode t → Wb. Only the decays of the Z boson to charged leptons and leptonic W-boson decays were considered as signal. Consequently, the final-state topology is characterised by the presence of three isolated charged leptons, at least two jets and missing transverse momentum from the undetected neutrino. No evidence for an FCNC signal was found. An upper limit on the t → Zq branching ratio of BR(t → Zq) < 0.73% is set at the 95% confidence level. Copyright CERN.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Volume	2012
Pages (from-to)	139
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)139
Publication status	Published - 12 Sept 2012

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Aad, G., Dam, M., Hansen, J. B., Hansen, P. H., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. R., Klinkby, E. B., Heisterkamp, S. J. F., Jørgensen, M. D., Petersen, T. C., Nilsson, B. S., Mehlhase, S., Boelaert, N. M. P., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., & Xella, S. (2012). A search for flavour changing neutral currents in top-quark decays in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), 2012, 139. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)139

Aad, G, Dam, M , Hansen, JB , Hansen, PH , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JR, Klinkby, EB, Heisterkamp, SJF, Jørgensen, MD, Petersen, TC, Nilsson, BS, Mehlhase, S, Boelaert, NMP, Løvschall-Jensen, AE & Xella, S 2012, 'A search for flavour changing neutral currents in top-quark decays in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV', Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), vol. 2012, pp. 139. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)139

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