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Title: | Search for anomalous Wtb couplings and flavour-changing neutral currents in t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV |
Authors: | Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Asilar, E Bergauer, T Brandstetter, J Brondolin, E Dragicevic, M Erö, J Flechl, M Friedl, M Frühwirth, R Ghete, VM Hartl, C Hörmann, N Hrubec, J Jeitler, M König, A Krätschmer, I Liko, D Matsushita, T Mikulec, I Rabady, D Rad, N Rahbaran, B Rohringer, H Schieck, J Strauss, J Treberer-Treberspurg, W Waltenberger, W Wulz, CE Mossolov, V Shumeiko, N Suarez Gonzalez, J Alderweireldt, S De Wolf, EA Janssen, X Lauwers, J Van De Klundert, M Van Haevermaet, H Van Mechelen, P Van Remortel, N Van Spilbeeck, A Abu Zeid, S Blekman, F D Hondt, J Daci, N De Bruyn, I Deroover, K Heracleous, N Lowette, S Moortgat, S Moreels, L Olbrechts, A Python, Q Tavernier, S Van Doninck, W Van Mulders, P Van Parijs, I Brun, H Caillol, C Clerbaux, B De Lentdecker, G Delannoy, H Fasanella, G Favart, L Goldouzian, R Grebenyuk, A Karapostoli, G Lenzi, T Léonard, A Luetic, J Maerschalk, T Marinov, A Randle-conde, A Seva, T Vander Velde, C Vanlaer, P Yonamine, R Zenoni, F Zhang, F Cimmino, A Cornelis, T Dobur, D Fagot, A Garcia, G Gul, M Poyraz, D Salva, S Schöfbeck, R Tytgat, M Van Driessche, W Yazgan, E Zaganidis, N |
Keywords: | Flavour Changing Neutral Currents;Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments);Top physics |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Citation: | Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017, 2017 (2) |
Abstract: | © 2017, The Author(s).Single top quark events produced in the t channel are used to set limits on anomalous Wtb couplings and to search for top quark flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions. The data taken with the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at s=7 and 8 TeV correspond to integrated luminosities of 5.0 and 19.7 fb−1, respectively. The analysis is performed using events with one muon and two or three jets. A Bayesian neural network technique is used to discriminate between the signal and backgrounds, which are observed to be consistent with the standard model prediction. The 95% confidence level (CL) exclusion limits on anomalous right-handed vector, and left- and right-handed tensor Wtb couplings are measured to be |fVR| < 0.16, |fTL| < 0.057, and − 0.049 < fTR < 0.048, respectively. For the FCNC couplings κtug and κtcg, the 95% CL upper limits on coupling strengths are |κtug|/Λ < 4.1 × 10− 3 TeV−1 and |κtcg|/Λ < 1.8 × 10− 2 TeV−1, where Λ is the scale for new physics, and correspond to upper limits on the branching fractions of 2.0 × 10−5 and 4.1 × 10−4 for the decays t → ug and t → cg, respectively.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14266 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2017)028 |
ISSN: | 1126-6708 1029-8479 |
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