Measurement of the cross-section for producing a $W$ boson in association with a single top quark in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV with ATLAS

Morad Aaboud, Georges Aad, Brad Abbott, Jalal Abdallah, Ovsat Abdinov, Baptiste Abeloos, Rosemarie Aben, Ossama AbouZeid, Nicola Abraham, Halina Abramowicz, Henso Abreu, Ricardo Abreu (+2845 others)
2016
The inclusive cross-section for the associated production of a $W$ boson and top quark is measured using data from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb$^{-1}$, and was collected in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Events are selected requiring two opposite sign isolated leptons and at least one jet; they are separated into signal and control regions based on their jet multiplicity and the
more » ... mber of jets that are identified as containing $b$ hadrons. The $Wt$ signal is then separated from the $t\bar{t}$ background using boosted decision tree discriminants in two regions. The cross-section is extracted by fitting templates to the data distributions, and is measured to be $\sigma_{Wt} 94 \pm 10$ (stat.)$^{+28}_{-22}$ (syst.) $\pm 2$ (lumi.) pb. The measurement is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction.
doi:10.3204/pubdb-2017-00937 fatcat:wvqrjobdfbft5pula72hpdvikq