Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; S. Abdel Khalek; O. Abdinov; Mogens Dam; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen; Sascha Mehlhase; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Almut Maria Pingel; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.042

Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Sascha Mehlhase, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Almut Maria Pingel, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig WiglesworthGorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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This Letter presents a search at the LHC for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The analyzed data set was recorded by the ATLAS detector and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb^-1. Selected events contain one charged lepton, large missing transverse momentum and exactly two b-tagged jets. A multivariate event classifier based on boosted decision trees is developed to discriminate s-channel single top-quark events from the main background contributions. The signal extraction is based on a binned maximum-likelihood fit of the output classifier distribution. The analysis leads to an upper limit on the s-channel single top-quark production cross-section of 14.6 pb at the 95% confidence level. The fit gives a cross-section of σ_s = 5.0 ± 4.3 pb, consistent with the Standard Model expectation.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	740
Pages (from-to)	118-136
Number of pages	19
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.042
Publication status	Published - 5 Jan 2015

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Dam, M., Hansen, J. B., Hansen, J. D., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Thomsen, L. A., Mehlhase, S., Jørgensen, M. D., Pingel, A. M., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., Alonso Diaz, A., Monk, J. W., Pedersen, L. E., ... Galster, G. A. G. K. (2015). Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 740, 118-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.042

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdel Khalek, S, Abdinov, O, Dam, M , Hansen, JB , Hansen, JD , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Thomsen, LA, Mehlhase, S, Jørgensen, MD, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G & Galster, GAGK 2015, 'Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters B, vol. 740, pp. 118-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.042

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Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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