%0 Journal Article %T Measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Amos, K. R. %A Aparisi Pozo, J. A. %A Bailey, A. J. %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Cantero, J. %A Cardillo, F. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Chitishvili, M. %A Costa, M. J. %A Didenko %A Escobar, C. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fullana Torregrosa, E. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Garcia Navarro, J. E. %A Gomez Delegido, A. J. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R. %A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R. %A Higon-Rodriguez, E. %A Lacasta, C. %A Lozano Bahilo, J. J. %A Marti-Garcia, S. %A Martinez Agullo, P. %A Miralles Lopez, M. %A Mitsou, V. A. %A Monsonis Romero, L. %A Moreno Llacer, M. %A Munoz Perez, D. %A Navarro-Gonzalez, J. %A Poveda, J. %A Prades IbaƱez, A. %A Rubio Jimenez, A. %A Ruiz-Martinez, A. %A Sabatini, P. %A Salt, J. %A Sanchez Sebastian, V. %A Sayago Galvan, I. %A Senthilkumar, V. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Torro Pastor, E. %A Valero, A. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Varriale, L. %A Villaplana Perez, M. %A Vos, M. %J Journal of High Energy Physics %D 2023 %V 06 %N 6 %I Springer %@ 1029-8479 %G English %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023 %O WOS:001035243000001 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5636), last updated on Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:29:13 +0000 %X A measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel is performed in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1). The analysis is performed on events with an electron or muon, missing transverse momentum and exactly two b-tagged jets in the final state. A discriminant based on matrix element calculations is used to separate single-top-quark s-channel events from the main background contributions, which are top-quark pair production and W-boson production in association with jets. The observed (expected) signal significance over the background-only hypothesis is 3.3 (3.9) standard deviations, and the measured cross-section is sigma = 8.2(-2.9)(+3.5) pb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction of sigma(SM) = 10.32(-0.36)(+0.40) pb. %K Hadron-Hadron Scattering %K Top Physics %R 10.1007/JHEP06(2023)191 %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08990 %U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2023)191 %P 191-47pp