TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
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  - Kaci, M.
AU  - King, M.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lacuesta, V. R.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Moles-Valls, R.
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  - Torro Pastor, E.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valladolid Gallego, E.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
T2  - Phys. Lett. B
JO  - Physics Letters B
SP  - 118
EP  - 136
VL  - 740
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
KW  - ATLAS
KW  - Top quark
KW  - Electroweak production
KW  - s-Channel
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0370-2693
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0647
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.042
DO  - 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.042
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000347046200017
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2015
ER  -