Published January 11, 2013
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Evidence for Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and W Boson in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
Abstract
Evidence is presented for the associated production of a single top quark and W boson in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb^(-1). The measurement is performed using events with two leptons and a jet originated from a b quark. A multivariate analysis based on kinematic properties is utilized to separate the tt background from the signal. The observed signal has a significance of 4.0σ and corresponds to a cross section of 16_(-4)^(+5) pb, in agreement with the standard model expectation of 15.6±0.4_(-1.2)^(+1.0) pb.
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© 2013 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Received 16 September 2012; published 11 January 2013. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC machine. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from BMWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, SF0690030s09, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MSI (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE, and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MON, RosAtom, RAS, and RFBR (Russia); MSTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); and DOE and NSF (USA).Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20130213-102813694
- BMWF and FWF (Austria)
- FNRS and FWO (Belgium)
- CNPq (Brazil)
- CAPES (Brazil)
- FAPERJ (Brazil)
- FAPESP (Brazil)
- MES (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- CAS
- MoST (China)
- NSFC (China)
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- MSES (Croatia)
- RPF (Cyprus)
- SF0690030s09
- MoER
- ERDF (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland
- MEC (Finland)
- HIP (Finland)
- CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- BMBF (Germany)
- DFG (Germany)
- HGF (Germany)
- GSRT (Greece)
- OTKA and NKTH (Hungary)
- DAE and DST (India)
- IPM (Iran)
- SFI (Ireland)
- INFN (Italy)
- NRF and WCU (Korea)
- LAS (Lithuania)
- CINVESTAV (Mexico)
- CONACYT (Mexico)
- SEP (Mexico)
- UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- MSI (New Zealand)
- PAEC (Pakistan)
- MSHE and NSC (Poland)
- FCT (Portugal)
- JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- MON
- RosAtom
- RAS and RFBR (Russia)
- MSTD (Serbia)
- SEIDI and CPAN (Spain)
- Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
- NSC (Taipei)
- TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey)
- STFC (United Kingdom)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
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