Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV
A search for the production of a single top quark in association with a Z boson is presented, both to identify the expected standard model process and to search for flavour-changing neutral current interactions. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻1recorded by the CMS...
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| author | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Riccardo Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Riccardo Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming |
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| description | A search for the production of a single top quark in association with a Z boson is presented, both to identify the expected standard model process and to search for flavour-changing neutral current interactions. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻1recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV. Final states with three leptons (electrons or muons) and at least one jet are investigated. An events yield compatible with tZq standard model production is observed, and the corresponding cross section is measured to be σ(pp → tZq → ℓνbℓ⁺ℓ⁻q) = 10₋₇⁺⁸fb with a significance of 2.4 standard deviations. No presence of flavour-changing neutral current production of tZq is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level on the branching fractions of a top quark decaying to a Z boson and an up or a charm quark are found to be ℬ(t → Zu) < 0.022% and ℬ(t → Zc) < 0.049%.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]. Keywords: Flavour Changing Neutral Currents; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Top physics |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1183932022-09-27T09:39:11Z Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Riccardo Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Riccardo Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming A search for the production of a single top quark in association with a Z boson is presented, both to identify the expected standard model process and to search for flavour-changing neutral current interactions. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻1recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV. Final states with three leptons (electrons or muons) and at least one jet are investigated. An events yield compatible with tZq standard model production is observed, and the corresponding cross section is measured to be σ(pp → tZq → ℓνbℓ⁺ℓ⁻q) = 10₋₇⁺⁸fb with a significance of 2.4 standard deviations. No presence of flavour-changing neutral current production of tZq is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level on the branching fractions of a top quark decaying to a Z boson and an up or a charm quark are found to be ℬ(t → Zu) < 0.022% and ℬ(t → Zc) < 0.049%.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]. Keywords: Flavour Changing Neutral Currents; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Top physics 2018-10-09T17:36:44Z 2018-10-09T17:36:44Z 2017-07 2017-06 2018-09-19T14:57:36Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118393 Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2017, 7 (July 2017): 3 © 2017 The Author(s) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6166-448X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2622-8295 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7904 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-1747 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7312-5854 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-5622 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8261-8346 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2850-9007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2017)003 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Nature Springer |
| spellingShingle | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Riccardo Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title | Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_full | Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_short | Search for Associated Production of a Z Boson with a Single Top Quark and for tZ Flavour-Changing Interactions in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_sort | search for associated production of a z boson with a single top quark and for tz flavour changing interactions in pp collisions at √s 8 tev |
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