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Search for FCNC single top-quark production at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 718, no. 4-5, p. 351-369
Publication date2012
Abstract

A search for the production of single top-quarks via flavour-changing neutral-currents is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb−1, are used. Candidate events with a semileptonic top-quark decay signature are classified as signal- or background-like events by using several kinematic variables as input to a neural network. No signal is observed in the neural network output distribution and a Bayesian upper limit is placed on the production cross-section. The observed upper limit at 95% confidence level on the cross-section multiplied by the t→Wbt→Wb branching fraction is measured to be σqg→t×B(t→Wb)<3.9 pbσqg→t×B(t→Wb)<3.9 pb. This upper limit is converted using a model-independent approach into upper limits on the coupling strengths κugt/Λ<6.9⋅10−3 TeV−1κugt/Λ<6.9⋅10−3 TeV−1 and κcgt/Λ<1.6⋅10−2 TeV−1κcgt/Λ<1.6⋅10−2 TeV−1, where Λ is the new physics scale, and on the branching fractions B(t→ug)<5.7⋅10−5B(t→ug)<5.7⋅10−5 and B(t→cg)<2.7⋅10−4B(t→cg)<2.7⋅10−4.

Keywords
  • Top physics
  • Heavy-quark production
  • FCNC
  • Single top quark
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. Search for FCNC single top-quark production at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Physics letters. B, 2012, vol. 718, n° 4-5, p. 351–369. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.05.022
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