@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2016, author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al and Alvarez Piqueras, D. and Cabrera Urban, S. and Castillo Gimenez, V. and Cerda Alberich, L. and Costa, M. J. and Fernandez Martinez, P. and Ferrer, A. and Fiorini, L. and Fuster, J. and Garcia, C. and Garcia Navarro, J. E. and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. and Hernandez Jimenez, Y. and Higon-Rodriguez, E. and Irles Quiles, A. and Jimenez Pena, J. and Kaci, M. and King, M. and Lacasta, C. and Lacuesta, V. R. and Marti-Garcia, S. and Mitsou, V. A. and Pedraza Lopez, S. and Perez Garcia-Esta{\~A}{\textpm}, M. T. and Romero Adam, E. and Ros, E. and Salt, J. and Sanchez Martinez, V. and Soldevila, U. and Sanchez, J. and Valero, A. and Valls Ferrer, J. A. and Vos, M.", title="Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment", journal="Journal of High Energy Physics", year="2016", publisher="Springer", volume="01", number="1", pages="064--48pp", optkeywords="Hadron-Hadron scattering; Top physics", abstract="The cross-section for the production of a single top quark in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at is measured. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1), collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Events containing two leptons and one central b-jet are selected. The W t signal is separated from the backgrounds using boosted decision trees, each of which combines a number of discriminating variables into one classifier. Production of W t events is observed with a significance of 7.7 sigma. The cross-section is extracted in a profile likelihood fit to the classifier output distributions. The W t cross-section, inclusive of decay modes, is measured to be 23.0 +/- 1.3(stat.) (-aEuro parts per thousand 3.5) (+ 3.2) (syst.)+/- 1.1(lumi.) pb. The measured cross-section is used to extract a value for the CKM matrix element |V (tb) | of 1.01 +/- 0.10 and a lower limit of 0.80 at the 95{\%} confidence level. The cross-section for the production of a top quark and a W boson is also measured in a fiducial acceptance requiring two leptons with p (T) > 25 GeV and |eta| < 2.5, one jet with p (T) > 20 GeV and |eta| < 2.5, and E (T) (miss) > 20 GeV, including both W t and top-quark pair events as signal. The measured value of the fiducial cross-section is 0.85 +/- A 0.01(stat.) (-aEuro parts per thousand 0.07) (+ 0.07) (syst.)+/- 0.03(lumi.) pb.", optnote="WOS:000368174800001", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2523), last updated on Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:09:21 +0000", issn="1029-8479", doi="10.1007/JHEP01(2016)064", opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03752", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)064", archivePrefix="arXiv", eprint="1510.03752", language="English" }