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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9 June 2014
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).
Abstract
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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