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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. / The CMS collaboration.
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T1 - 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
AU - The CMS collaboration
AU - Sirunyan, A. M.
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 - Mossolov, V.
AU - Suarez Gonzalez, J.
AU - Zykunov, V.
AU - Shumeiko, N.
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.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - 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−1 recorded 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 + 8 fb 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%.
AB - 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−1 recorded 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 + 8 fb 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%.
KW - Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
KW - Top physics
KW - COUPLINGS
KW - DECAYS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85022008132&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP07(2017)003
DO - 10.1007/JHEP07(2017)003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85022008132
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1029-8479
IS - 7
M1 - 3
ER -
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