Observation of the associated production of a single top quark -and a W boson in pp collisions at s =8TeV
Physical Review Letters, cilt.112, sa.23, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 112 Sayı: 23
- Basım Tarihi: 2014
- Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.231802
- Dergi Adı: Physical Review Letters
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
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 12.2fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV 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 tt̄ 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±5.4pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction. © 2014 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration.