PT Journal
AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea
   Amos, KR
   Aparisi Pozo, JA
   Bailey, AJ
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Cantero, J
   Cardillo, F
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Chitishvili, M
   Costa, MJ
   Didenko
   Escobar, C
   Fiorini, L
   Fullana Torregrosa, E
   Fuster, J
   Garcia, C
   Garcia Navarro, JE
   Gomez Delegido, AJ
   Gonzalez de la Hoz, S
   Gonzalvo Rodriguez, GR
   Guerrero Rojas, JGR
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Lacasta, C
   Lozano Bahilo, JJ
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Martinez Agullo, P
   Miralles Lopez, M
   Mitsou, VA
   Monsonis Romero, L
   Moreno Llacer, M
   Munoz Perez, D
   Navarro-Gonzalez, J
   Poveda, J
   Prades Ibañez, A
   Rubio Jimenez, A
   Ruiz-Martinez, A
   Sabatini, P
   Salt, J
   Sanchez Sebastian, V
   Sayago Galvan, I
   Senthilkumar, V
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Torro Pastor, E
   Valero, A
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Varriale, L
   Villaplana Perez, M
   Vos, M
TI Measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
SO Journal of High Energy Physics
JI J. High Energy Phys.
PY 2023
BP 191
EP 47pp
VL 06
IS 6
DI 10.1007/JHEP06(2023)191
LA English
DE Hadron-Hadron Scattering; Top Physics
AB 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.
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