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Observation of the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a W Boson in pp Collisions at √s=8  TeV

Observation of the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a W Boson in pp Collisions at √s=8  TeV
Observation of the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a W Boson in pp Collisions at √s=8  TeV
The first observation of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson is presented. The analysis is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12.2??fb?1 of proton-proton collisions at s?=8??TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Events with two leptons and a jet originating from a b quark are selected. A multivariate analysis based on kinematic and topological properties is used to separate the signal from the dominant tt¯ background. An excess consistent with the signal hypothesis is observed, with a significance which corresponds to 6.1 standard deviations above a background-only hypothesis. The measured production cross section is 23.4±5.4??pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction
Chatrchyan, S.
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Khachatryan, V.
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Sirunyan, A.M.
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Belyaev, Alexander
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The CMS Collaboration
Chatrchyan, S.
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Khachatryan, V.
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Sirunyan, A.M.
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Belyaev, Alexander
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Chatrchyan, S. , The CMS Collaboration (2014) Observation of the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a W Boson in pp Collisions at √s=8  TeV. Physical Review Letters, 112 (23), [231802]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.231802).

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The first observation of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson is presented. The analysis is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12.2??fb?1 of proton-proton collisions at s?=8??TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Events with two leptons and a jet originating from a b quark are selected. A multivariate analysis based on kinematic and topological properties is used to separate the signal from the dominant tt¯ background. An excess consistent with the signal hypothesis is observed, with a significance which corresponds to 6.1 standard deviations above a background-only hypothesis. The measured production cross section is 23.4±5.4??pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction

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Published date: 9 June 2014
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy

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Local EPrints ID: 369469
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/369469
PURE UUID: 3f5d2b87-0f0c-451e-aadd-0d02d627cc74
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

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Date deposited: 26 Sep 2014 14:50
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:28

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Author: S. Chatrchyan
Author: V. Khachatryan
Author: A.M. Sirunyan
Corporate Author: The CMS Collaboration

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