%0 Journal Article
%T Search for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral currents at 8TeV with the ATLAS detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Alvarez Piqueras, D.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Fernandez Martinez, P.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Irles Quiles, A.
%A Jimenez Pena, J.
%A Kaci, M.
%A King, M.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lacuesta, V. R.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Oliver Garcia, E.
%A Pedraza Lopez, S.
%A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
%A Romero Adam, E.
%A Ros, E.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Martinez, V.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valladolid Gallego, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J European Physical Journal C
%D 2016
%V 76
%N 2
%I Springer
%@ 1434-6044
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2016
%O WOS:000375277900001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2663), last updated on Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:05:14 +0000
%X A search for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral current processes from gluon plus up- or charm-quark initial states in proton-proton collisions at the LHC is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector in 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1) are used. Candidate events for a top quark decaying into a lepton, a neutrino and a jet are selected and classified into signal- and background-like candidates using a neural network. No signal is observed and an upper limit on the production cross-section multiplied by the t -> Wb branching fraction is set. The observed 95% CL limit is sigma(qg -> t) x B(t -> Wb) < 3.4 pb and the expected 95% CL limit is sigma(qg -> t) x B(t -> Wb) < 2.9 pb. The observed limit can be interpreted as upper limits on the coupling constants of the flavour-changing neutral current interactions divided by the scale of new physics kappa(ugt)/Lambda < 5.8 x 10(-3) TeV-1 and kappa(cgt)/Lambda < 13x10(-3) TeV and on the branching fractions B(t -> ug) < 4.0 x 10(-5) and B(t -> cg) < 20 x 10(-5).
%R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3876-4
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00294
%U https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3876-4
%P 55 - 30pp