TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Alvarez Piqueras, D.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Fernandez Martinez, P.
AU  - Ferrer, A.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Irles Quiles, A.
AU  - Jimenez Pena, J.
AU  - Kaci, M.
AU  - King, M.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lacuesta, V. R.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Oliver Garcia, E.
AU  - Pedraza Lopez, S.
AU  - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
AU  - Romero Adam, E.
AU  - Ros, E.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Sanchez Martinez, V.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valladolid Gallego, E.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Search for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral currents at 8TeV with the ATLAS detector
T2  - Eur. Phys. J. C
JO  - European Physical Journal C
SP  - 55 - 30pp
VL  - 76
IS  - 2
PB  - Springer
AB  - 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).
SN  - 1434-6044
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00294
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3876-4
DO  - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3876-4
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000375277900001
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2016
ER  -