Cross Section Measurement Of T-Channel Single Top Quark Production In Pp Collisions At Root S=13 Tev

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2017
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Sirunyan, A. M.
Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Asilar, E.
Bergauer, T.
Brandstetter, J.
Brondolin, E.
Dragicevic, M.
Ghete, V. M.
Hartl, C.
Hrubec, J.
Jeitler, M.
Krammer, M.
Kratschmer, I.
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Abstract
The cross section for the production of single top quarks in the t channel is measured in proton- proton collisions at 13TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.2fb(-1). The event selection requires one muon and two jets where one of the jets is identified as originating from a bottom quark. Several kinematic variables are then combined into a multivariate discriminator to distinguish signal from background events. A fit to the distribution of the discriminating variable yields a total cross section of 238 +/- 13 (stat)+/- 29(syst) pband a ratio of top quark and top antiquark production of Rt-ch.= 1.81 +/- 0.18 (stat)+/- 0.15(syst). From the total cross section the absolute value of the CKM matrix element Vtbis calculated to be 1.05 +/- 0.07 (exp)+/- 0.02(theo). All results are in agreement with the standard model predictions. (C) 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.047
http://hdl.handle.net/11655/18162
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