Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at root s=7 TeV

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

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.011

Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at root s=7 TeV

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

Experimental Particle Physics

Abstract

This Letter presents evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark using 2.05 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data at s=7TeV accumulated with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on the selection of the dileptonic final states with events featuring two isolated leptons, electron or muon, with significant transverse missing momentum and at least one jet. An approach based on boosted decision trees has been developed to improve the discrimination of single top-quark Wt events from background. A template fit to the final classifier distributions is performed to determine the cross-section. The result is incompatible with the background-only hypothesis at the 3.3σ level, the expected sensitivity assuming the Standard Model production rate being 3.4σ. The corresponding cross-section is determined and found to be σ_Wt=16.8±2.9 (stat)±4.9 (syst) pb, in good agreement with the Standard Model expectation. From this result the CKM matrix element |V_tb|=1.03_−0.19 ^+0.16 is derived assuming that the Wt production through |V_ts| and |V_td| is small.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	716
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	142-159
Number of pages	17
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.011
Publication status	Published - 17 Sept 2012

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Dam, M., Hansen, J. B., Hansen, P. H., Hansen, J. R., Hansen, J. D., Heisterkamp, S. J. F., Jørgensen, M. D., Boelaert, N. M. P., Klinkby, E. B., Mehlhase, S., Nilsson, B. S., Petersen, T. C., Xella, S., & Løvschall-Jensen, A. E. (2012). Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at root s=7 TeV. Physics Letters B, 716(1), 142-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.011

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Dam, M , Hansen, JB , Hansen, PH , Hansen, JR , Hansen, JD, Heisterkamp, SJF, Jørgensen, MD, Boelaert, NMP, Klinkby, EB, Mehlhase, S, Nilsson, BS, Petersen, TC , Xella, S & Løvschall-Jensen, AE 2012, 'Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at root s=7 TeV', Physics Letters B, vol. 716, no. 1, pp. 142-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.011

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