Single top-quark production in association with a Z boson, where the Z boson decays to a pair of charged leptons, is measured in the trilepton channel. The proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment from 2015 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Events containing three isolated charged leptons (electrons or muons) and two or three jets, one of which is identified as containing a b-hadron, are selected. The main backgrounds are from tt¯ Z and diboson production. Neural networks are used to improve the background rejection and extract the signal. The measured cross-section for tℓ+ℓ−q production, including non-resonant dilepton pairs with mℓ+ℓ−> 30 GeV, is 97 ± 13 (stat.) ± 7 (syst.) fb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Aad G., A.B. (2020). Observation of the associated production of a top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2020(7), 1-46 [10.1007/JHEP07(2020)124].

Observation of the associated production of a top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Alberghi G. L.;Alfonsi F.;Bellagamba L.;Bindi M.;Boscherini D.;Cabras G.;Caforio D.;De Castro S.;Di Sipio R.;Fabbri F.;Fabbri L.;Franchini M.;Gabrielli A.;Giacobbe B.;Lasagni Manghi F.;Macchiolo A.;Massa L.;Monzani S.;Polini A.;Rinaldi L.;Romano M.;Sbarra C.;Sbrizzi A.;Semprini-Cesari N.;Sioli M.;Todome K.;Ucchielli G.;Valentinetti S.;Villa M.;Vittori C.;Vivarelli I.;Zimmermann S.;Zoccoli A.;
2020

Abstract

Single top-quark production in association with a Z boson, where the Z boson decays to a pair of charged leptons, is measured in the trilepton channel. The proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment from 2015 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Events containing three isolated charged leptons (electrons or muons) and two or three jets, one of which is identified as containing a b-hadron, are selected. The main backgrounds are from tt¯ Z and diboson production. Neural networks are used to improve the background rejection and extract the signal. The measured cross-section for tℓ+ℓ−q production, including non-resonant dilepton pairs with mℓ+ℓ−> 30 GeV, is 97 ± 13 (stat.) ± 7 (syst.) fb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
2020
Aad G., A.B. (2020). Observation of the associated production of a top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2020(7), 1-46 [10.1007/JHEP07(2020)124].
Aad G., Abbott B., Abbott D.C., Abed Abud A., Abeling K., Abhayasinghe D.K., Abidi S.H., AbouZeid O.S., Abraham N.L., Abramowicz H., Abreu H., Abulait...espandi
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