TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
AU  - Alvarez Piqueras, D.
AU  - Barranco Navarro, L.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Cerda Alberich, L.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Estrada Pastor, O.
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  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Jimenez Pena, J.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Madaffari, D.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Melini, D.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Pedraza Lopez, S.
AU  - Rodriguez Bosca, S.
AU  - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
AU  - Romero Adam, E.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Sanchez Martinez, V.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
T2  - Phys. Lett. B
JO  - Physics Letters B
SP  - 557
EP  - 577
VL  - 780
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
AB  - The production of a top quark in association with a Z boson is investigated. The proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1). Events containing three identified leptons (electrons and/or muons) and two jets, one of which is identified as a b-quark jet are selected. The major backgrounds are diboson, tt($)over-bar and Z + jets production. A neural network is used to improve the background rejection and extract the signal. The resulting significance is 4.2 sigma in the data and the expected significance is 5.4 sigma. The measured cross-section for tZq production is 600 +/- 170(stat.)+/- 140(syst.)fb.
SN  - 0370-2693
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03659
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.023
DO  - 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.023
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000432187800078
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2018
ER  -