Measurement of the single top quark and antiquark production cross sections in the t channel and their ratio in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13 TeV
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The CMS Collaboration
Date Issued
2020
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Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
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Elsevier BV
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2019 The Author(s) Measurements of the cross sections for the production of single top quarks and antiquarks in the t channel, and their ratio, are presented for proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data set used was recorded in 2016 by the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. Events with one muon or electron are selected, and different categories of jet and b jet multiplicity and multivariate discriminators are applied to separate the signal from the background. The cross sections for the t-channel production of single top quarks and antiquarks are measured to be 130±1(stat)±19(syst)pb and 77±1(stat)±12(syst)pb, respectively, and their ratio is 1.68±0.02(stat)±0.05(syst). The results are in agreement with the predictions from the standard model.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2019.135042
