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# Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at $s=8$ TeV

The CMS Collaboration (2016) Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at $s=8$ TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 04, 035.

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## Abstract

The result of a search for flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) through single top quark production in association with a photon is presented. The study is based on proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV using data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.8 fb−1. The search for tγ events where t → Wb and W → μν is conducted in final states with a muon, a photon, at least one hadronic jet with at most one being consistent with originating from a bottom quark, and missing transverse momentum. No evidence of single top quark production in association with a photon through a FCNC is observed. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the tuγ and tcγ anomalous couplings and translated into upper limits on the branching fraction of the FCNC top quark decays: ℬ(t → uγ) < 1.3 × 10− 4 and ℬ(t → cγ) < 1.7 × 10− 3. Upper limits are also set on the cross section of associated tγ production in a restricted phase-space region. These are the most stringent limits currently available.

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## More information

Accepted/In Press date: 15 February 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 6 April 2016
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 408095
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408095
ISSN: 1029-8479
PURE UUID: 27d13e06-6ff3-416b-965e-a2c92f832ca1
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 11 May 2017 01:09
Last modified: 22 Nov 2021 02:55

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## Contributors

Author: Vardan Khachatryan
Corporate Author: The CMS Collaboration

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