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Comprehensive measurements of t-channel single top-quark production cross sections at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica, Institute Of Physics
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Department of Physics
  • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Department of Physics
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • INFN Sezione di Trieste
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science
  • Agh University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics Department
  • Yale University
  • Fakultät für Physik
  • Universität München
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Belgrade
  • Lisboa
  • Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE
  • University of Granada
  • Centre for Research and Education in Fundamental Physics
  • University of Bern
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • INFN Roma Tor Vergata
  • University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
  • Department of Physics
  • Lund University
  • Department of Physics
  • University of Tokyo
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • INFN Sezione di Bologna
  • University of Bologna
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • University of Victoria
  • LTHE (UMR 5564 CNRS/IRD/Université de Grenoble)
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • Section de Physique
  • University of Geneva
  • Physics Department
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Dipartimento di Chimica
  • and Physics University of Udine
  • Sezione INFN di Milano
  • University of Chicago
  • School of Physics and Astronomy
  • University of Birmingham
  • Lancaster University
  • University of Liverpool
  • School of Physics and Astronomy
  • University of Manchester
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • University of Cambridge
  • Laboratoire de Physique des Particules

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This article presents measurements of the t-channel single top-quark (t) and top-antiquark (t¯) total production cross sections σ(tq) and σ(t¯q), their ratio Rt=σ(tq)/σ(t¯q), and a measurement of the inclusive production cross section σ(tq+t¯q) in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV at the LHC. Differential cross sections for the tq and t¯q processes are measured as a function of the transverse momentum and the absolute value of the rapidity of t and t¯, respectively. The analyzed data set was recorded with the ATLAS detector and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.59 fb-1. Selected events contain one charged lepton, large missing transverse momentum, and two or three jets. The cross sections are measured by performing a binned maximum-likelihood fit to the output distributions of neural networks. The resulting measurements are σ(tq)=46±1(stat)±6(syst) pb, σ(t¯q)=23±1(stat)±3(syst) pb, Rt=2.04±0.13(stat)±0.12(syst), and σ(tq+t¯q)=68±2(stat)±8(syst) pb, consistent with the Standard Model expectation. The uncertainty on the measured cross sections is dominated by systematic uncertainties, while the uncertainty on Rt is mainly statistical. Using the ratio of σ(tq+t¯q) to its theoretical prediction, and assuming that the top-quark-related CKM matrix elements obey the relation |Vtb||Vts|,|Vtd|, we determine |Vtb|=1.02±0.07.

langue originaleAnglais
Numéro d'article112006
journalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume90
Numéro de publication11
Les DOIs
étatPublié - 11 déc. 2014
Modification externeOui

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