Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud; G. Aad; B. Abbott; O. Abdinov; B Abeloos; S.H. Abidi; Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid; NL Abraham; H. Abramowicz; H. Abreu; R. Abreu; Y. Abulaiti; B.S. Acharya; Shin-ichi Adachi; L. Adamczyk; J. Adelman; M. Adersberger; T. Adye; A. A. Affolder; Y.  Afik; Milena Bajic; Geert-Jan Besjes; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; Mogens Dam; Flavia de Almeida Dias; Peter Henrik Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Troels Christian Petersen; James William Monk; Simon Holm Stark; Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele; Graig Wiglesworth; Stefania Xella

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Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, S.H. Abidi, Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Shin-ichi Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, T. Adye, A. A. Affolder, Y. AfikMilena Bajic, Geert-Jan Besjes, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Mogens Dam, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Troels Christian Petersen, James William Monk, Simon Holm Stark, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Graig Wiglesworth, Stefania Xella

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The production of a top quark in association with a Z boson is investigated. The proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb⁻¹. Events containing three identified leptons (electrons and/or muons) and two jets, one of which is identified as a b-quark jet are selected. The major backgrounds are diboson, tt¯ and Z+jets production. A neural network is used to improve the background rejection and extract the signal. The resulting significance is 4.2σ in the data and the expected significance is 5.4σ. The measured cross-section for tZq production is 600±170(stat.)±140(syst.)fb.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	780
Pages (from-to)	557-577
Number of pages	21
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.023
Publication status	Published - 10 May 2018

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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., Abouzeid, O. S. A., Abraham, NL., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A., ... Xella, S. (2018). Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 780, 557-577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.023

Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, Abouzeid, OSA, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adachi, S, Adamczyk, L, Adelman, J, Adersberger, M, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Bajic, M, Besjes, G-J, Alonso Diaz, A, Dam, M, de Almeida Dias, F, Hansen, PH , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB, Galster, GAGK, Petersen, TC, Monk, JW, Stark, SH, Thiele, FAJ, Wiglesworth, G & Xella, S 2018, 'Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters B, vol. 780, pp. 557-577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.023

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Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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