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In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. 772, 10.09.2017, p. 752-776.

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The CMS collaboration. Cross section measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s=13TeV. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 2017 Sept 10;772:752-776. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.047

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The CMS collaboration. / Cross section measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s=13TeV. In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 2017 ; Vol. 772. pp. 752-776.

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title = "Cross section measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s=13TeV",
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) pb and 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 Vtb is calculated to be 1.05±0.07(exp)±0.02(theo). All results are in agreement with the standard model predictions.",
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AU - Tumasyan, A.

AU - Adam, W.

AU - Asilar, E.

AU - Bergauer, T.

AU - Brandstetter, J.

AU - Brondolin, E.

AU - Dragicevic, M.

AU - Erö, J.

AU - Flechl, M.

AU - Friedl, M.

AU - Frühwirth, R.

AU - Ghete, V. M.

AU - Hartl, C.

AU - Hörmann, N.

AU - Hrubec, J.

AU - Jeitler, M.

AU - König, A.

AU - Krätschmer, I.

AU - Liko, D.

AU - Matsushita, T.

AU - Mikulec, I.

AU - Rabady, D.

AU - Rad, N.

AU - Rahbaran, B.

AU - Rohringer, H.

AU - Schieck, J.

AU - Strauss, J.

AU - Waltenberger, W.

AU - Wulz, C. E.

AU - Dvornikov, O.

AU - Makarenko, V.

AU - Zykunov, V.

AU - Mossolov, V.

AU - Shumeiko, N.

AU - Suarez Gonzalez, J.

AU - Alderweireldt, S.

AU - De Wolf, E. A.

AU - Janssen, X.

AU - Lauwers, J.

AU - Van De Klundert, M.

AU - Van Haevermaet, H.

AU - Van Mechelen, P.

AU - Van Remortel, N.

AU - Van Spilbeeck, A.

AU - Abu Zeid, S.

AU - Blekman, F.

AU - D'Hondt, J.

AU - Skovpen, Y.

AU - Shtol, D.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s)

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N2 - 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) pb and 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 Vtb is calculated to be 1.05±0.07(exp)±0.02(theo). All results are in agreement with the standard model predictions.

AB - 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) pb and 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 Vtb is calculated to be 1.05±0.07(exp)±0.02(theo). All results are in agreement with the standard model predictions.

KW - CMS

KW - Physics

KW - Top quark

KW - PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS

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