Measurement of differential cross sections for t-channel single-top-quark production at 13 TeV

2016/11/15 by M. Komm, Komm, Matthias
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.04852

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Abstract

The production of single top quarks is a cornerstone in understanding the nature of the heaviest known elementary particle and its involvement in electroweak interactions. An early differential cross section measurement of t-channel single-top-quark production is presented. Proton-Proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13~TeV collected in 2015 were analyzed, corresponding to 2.3~fb^-1. The amount of signal events as a function of the top quark transverse momentum and rapidity is estimated using a multivariate discriminant. The results are unfolded to parton level and compared to predictions by various Monte-Carlo generators.

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