Cross section measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s=13TeV

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.047

Cross section measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s=13TeV

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

The cross section for the production of single top quarks in the t channel is measured in proton–proton collisions at 13TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.2fb⁻¹. The event selection requires one muon and two jets where one of the jets is identified as originating from a bottom quark. Several kinematic variables are then combined into a multivariate discriminator to distinguish signal from background events. A fit to the distribution of the discriminating variable yields a total cross section of 238±13(stat)±29(syst) pb and a ratio of top quark and top antiquark production of R_t-ch.=1.81±0.18(stat)±0.15(syst). From the total cross section the absolute value of the CKM matrix element V_tb is calculated to be 1.05±0.07(exp)±0.02(theo). All results are in agreement with the standard model predictions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	752-776
Number of pages	25
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	772
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.047
Publication status	Published - 10 Sept 2017

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© 2017 The Author(s)

Funding

Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A.P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund; the Mobility Plus programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland); the OPUS programme of the National Science Center (Poland); the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); MIUR project 20108T4XTM (Italy); the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand); the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845.

Funders	Funder number
Chulalongkorn Academic
EU-ESF
National Science Foundation	1606321, 1151640, 1506168, 1506130, 1211067, 1607202, 1624356
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Welch Foundation	C-1845
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Compagnia di San Paolo
Qatar National Research Fund
Seventh Framework Programme	246806
Science and Technology Facilities Council	GRIDPP
European Commission
European Research Council
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Chulalongkorn University
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie
Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca	20108T4XTM
A.G. Leventis Foundation
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
European Regional Development Fund

Keywords

CMS
Physics
Top quark

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Cross section measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s=13TeV

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