Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/4997
Title: Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at root s=7 TeV
Authors: Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abdallah, J.
Khalek, S. Abdel
Abdelalim, A. A.
Abdinov, O.
The ATLAS Collaboration
Sultansoy, Saleh
Keywords: ATLAS
Top quark
W plus t
Single top-quark
Publisher: Elsevier
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 root s = 7 TeV 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 3.3 sigma level, the expected sensitivity assuming the Standard Model production rate being 3.4 sigma. The corresponding cross-section is determined and found to be sigma(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 vertical bar V-tb vertical bar = 1.03(-0.19)(+0.16) is derived assuming that the Wt production through vertical bar V-ts vertical bar and vertical bar V-td vertical bar is small. (C) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.011
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/4997
ISSN: 0370-2693
1873-2445
Appears in Collections:Malzeme Bilimi ve Nanoteknoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü / Department of Material Science & Nanotechnology Engineering
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WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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