Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV

The result of a search for flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) through single top quark production in association with a photon is presented. The study is based on proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV using data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to...

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Main Authors: Apyan, Aram, Barbieri, Riccardo, Baty, Austin Alan, Bierwagen, Katharina, Brandt, Stephanie Akemi, Busza, Wit, Cali, Ivan Amos, Demiragli, Zeynep, Di Matteo, Leonardo, Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Gulhan, Doga Can, Iiyama, Yutaro, Innocenti, Gian Michele, Klute, Markus, Kovalskyi, Dmytro, Lai, Yue Shi, Lee, Yen-Jie, Levin, Andrew Michael, Luckey Jr, P David, Marini, Andrea Carlo, McGinn, Christopher Francis, Mironov, Camelia Maria, Niu, Xinmei, Paus, Christoph M. E., Ralph, Duncan Kelley, Roland, Christof E, Roland, Gunther M, Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry, Stephans, George S. F., Sumorok, Konstanty C, Varma, Mukund Madhav, Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru, Veverka, Jan, Wang, J., Wang, Ta-Wei, Wyslouch, Boleslaw, Yang, Mingming, Wyslouch, Victoria
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag/SISSA 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107623
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author Apyan, Aram
Barbieri, Riccardo
Baty, Austin Alan
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Demiragli, Zeynep
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Gulhan, Doga Can
Iiyama, Yutaro
Innocenti, Gian Michele
Klute, Markus
Kovalskyi, Dmytro
Lai, Yue Shi
Lee, Yen-Jie
Levin, Andrew Michael
Luckey Jr, P David
Marini, Andrea Carlo
McGinn, Christopher Francis
Mironov, Camelia Maria
Niu, Xinmei
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Ralph, Duncan Kelley
Roland, Christof E
Roland, Gunther M
Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry
Stephans, George S. F.
Sumorok, Konstanty C
Varma, Mukund Madhav
Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru
Veverka, Jan
Wang, J.
Wang, Ta-Wei
Wyslouch, Boleslaw
Yang, Mingming
Wyslouch, Victoria
author2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Barbieri, Riccardo
Baty, Austin Alan
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Demiragli, Zeynep
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Gulhan, Doga Can
Iiyama, Yutaro
Innocenti, Gian Michele
Klute, Markus
Kovalskyi, Dmytro
Lai, Yue Shi
Lee, Yen-Jie
Levin, Andrew Michael
Luckey Jr, P David
Marini, Andrea Carlo
McGinn, Christopher Francis
Mironov, Camelia Maria
Niu, Xinmei
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Ralph, Duncan Kelley
Roland, Christof E
Roland, Gunther M
Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry
Stephans, George S. F.
Sumorok, Konstanty C
Varma, Mukund Madhav
Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru
Veverka, Jan
Wang, J.
Wang, Ta-Wei
Wyslouch, Boleslaw
Yang, Mingming
Wyslouch, Victoria
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description The result of a search for flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) through single top quark production in association with a photon is presented. The study is based on proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV using data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.8 fb[superscript −1]. The search for tγ events where t → Wb and W → μν is conducted in final states with a muon, a photon, at least one hadronic jet with at most one being consistent with originating from a bottom quark, and missing transverse momentum. No evidence of single top quark production in association with a photon through a FCNC is observed. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the tuγ and tcγ anomalous couplings and translated into upper limits on the branching fraction of the FCNC top quark decays: ℬ(t → uγ) < 1.3 × 10− 4 and ℬ(t → cγ) < 1.7 × 10[superscript − 3]. Upper limits are also set on the cross section of associated tγ production in a restricted phase-space region. These are the most stringent limits currently available.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1076232022-09-29T13:06:26Z Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV Apyan, Aram Barbieri, Riccardo Baty, Austin Alan Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Gulhan, Doga Can Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Ralph, Duncan Kelley Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, J. Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Mingming Wyslouch, Victoria Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Apyan, Aram Barbieri, Riccardo Baty, Austin Alan Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Gulhan, Doga Can Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Ralph, Duncan Kelley Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, J. Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Mingming Wyslouch, Victoria The result of a search for flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) through single top quark production in association with a photon is presented. The study is based on proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV using data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.8 fb[superscript −1]. The search for tγ events where t → Wb and W → μν is conducted in final states with a muon, a photon, at least one hadronic jet with at most one being consistent with originating from a bottom quark, and missing transverse momentum. No evidence of single top quark production in association with a photon through a FCNC is observed. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the tuγ and tcγ anomalous couplings and translated into upper limits on the branching fraction of the FCNC top quark decays: ℬ(t → uγ) < 1.3 × 10− 4 and ℬ(t → cγ) < 1.7 × 10[superscript − 3]. Upper limits are also set on the cross section of associated tγ production in a restricted phase-space region. These are the most stringent limits currently available. United States. Dept. of Energy National Science Foundation (U.S.) 2017-03-21T17:41:09Z 2017-03-21T17:41:09Z 2016-04 2016-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 1126-6708 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107623 The CMS collaboration et al. “Search for Anomalous Single Top Quark Production in Association with a Photon in Pp Collisions at √S = 8 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2016.4 (2016): n. pag. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6166-448X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2622-8295 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-6621 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1136-6900 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-5622 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8261-8346 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6332-5839 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2016)035 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag/SISSA Springer
spellingShingle Apyan, Aram
Barbieri, Riccardo
Baty, Austin Alan
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Demiragli, Zeynep
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Gulhan, Doga Can
Iiyama, Yutaro
Innocenti, Gian Michele
Klute, Markus
Kovalskyi, Dmytro
Lai, Yue Shi
Lee, Yen-Jie
Levin, Andrew Michael
Luckey Jr, P David
Marini, Andrea Carlo
McGinn, Christopher Francis
Mironov, Camelia Maria
Niu, Xinmei
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Ralph, Duncan Kelley
Roland, Christof E
Roland, Gunther M
Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry
Stephans, George S. F.
Sumorok, Konstanty C
Varma, Mukund Madhav
Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru
Veverka, Jan
Wang, J.
Wang, Ta-Wei
Wyslouch, Boleslaw
Yang, Mingming
Wyslouch, Victoria
Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV
title Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV
title_full Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV
title_fullStr Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV
title_full_unstemmed Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV
title_short Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV
title_sort search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at √s 8 tev
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