%0 Journal Article
%T Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%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 Kaci, M.
%A King, M.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lacuesta, V. R.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Moles-Valls, R.
%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 Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valladolid Gallego, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physics Letters B
%D 2015
%V 740
%I Elsevier Science Bv
%@ 0370-2693
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2015
%O WOS:000347046200017
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2095), last updated on Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:15:14 +0000
%X This Letter presents a search at the LHC for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The analyzed data set was recorded by the ATLAS detector and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1). Selected events contain one charged lepton, large missing transverse momentum and exactly two b-tagged jets. A multivariate event classifier based on boosted decision trees is developed to discriminate s-channel single top-quark events from the main background contributions. The signal extraction is based on a binned maximum-likelihood fit of the output classifier distribution. The analysis leads to an upper limit on the s-channel single topquark production cross-section of 14.6 pb at the 95% confidence level. The fit gives a cross-section of sigma(s) = 5.0 +/- 4.3 pb, consistent with the Standard Model expectation.
%K ATLAS
%K Top quark
%K Electroweak production
%K s-Channel
%R 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.042
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0647
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.042
%P 118-136