Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2016) Search for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral currents at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields, 76. a55. ISSN 1434-6044
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Abstract
A search for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral current processes from gluon plus up- or charm-quark initial states in proton–proton collisions at the LHC is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector in 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb −¹ are used. Candidate events for a top quark decaying into a lepton, a neutrino and a jet are selected and classified into signal- and background-like candidates using a neural network. No signal is observed and an upper limit on the production cross-section multiplied by the t→Wb branching fraction is set. The observed 95 % CL limit is σqg→t×B(t→Wb)<3.4pb and the expected 95 % CL limit is σqg→t×B(t→Wb)<2.9pb. The observed limit can be interpreted as upper limits on the coupling constants of the flavour-changing neutral current interactions divided by the scale of new physics κugt/Λ<5.8×10−3 TeV−¹ and κcgt/Δ<13×10−³ TeV and on the branching fractions B(t→ug)<4.0×10−5 and B(t→cg)<20×10−5.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy |
Research Centres and Groups: | Experimental Particle Physics Research Group |
Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
Depositing User: | Billy Wichaidit |
Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2017 15:29 |
Last Modified: | 10 Apr 2017 19:15 |
URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67357 |
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