@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2020, author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al and Aparisi Pozo, J. A. and Bailey, A. J. and Cabrera Urban, S. and Castillo, F. L. and Castillo Gimenez, V. and Cerda Alberich, L. and Costa, M. J. and Escobar, C. and Estrada Pastor, O. and Ferrer, A. and Fiorini, L. and Fullana Torregrosa, E. and Fuster, J. and Garcia, C. and Garcia Navarro, J. E. and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. and Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R. and Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R. and Higon-Rodriguez, E. and Lacasta, C. and Lozano Bahilo, J. J. and Madaffari, D. and Mamuzic, J. and Marti-Garcia, S. and Mi{\~{n}}ano, M. and Mitsou, V. A. and Moreno Llacer, M. and Rodriguez Bosca, S. and Rodriguez Rodriguez, D. and Ruiz-Martinez, A. and Salt, J. and Santra, A. and Soldevila, U. and Sanchez, J. and Valero, A. and Valls Ferrer, J. A. and Vos, M.", title="Observation of the associated production of a top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector", journal="Journal of High Energy Physics", year="2020", publisher="Springer", volume="07", number="7", pages="124--46pp", optkeywords="Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)", 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 t (t) over barZ 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 m(l+l-) > 30 GeV, is 97 +/- 13 (stat.) +/- 7 (syst.) fb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction.", optnote="WOS:000565307900001", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4524), last updated on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:07:06 +0000", issn="1029-8479", doi="10.1007/JHEP07(2020)124", opturl="https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07546", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)124", language="English" }