@article{8971456e6c664914a0f824472ed1acdf,
title = "Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at √s=7TeV",
abstract = "This Letter presents evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark using 2.05 fb−1 of pp collision data at s=7TeV accumulated with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on the selection of the dileptonic final states with events featuring two isolated leptons, electron or muon, with significant transverse missing momentum and at least one jet. An approach based on boosted decision trees has been developed to improve the discrimination of single top-quark Wt events from background. A template fit to the final classifier distributions is performed to determine the cross-section. The result is incompatible with the background-only hypothesis at the 3.3σ level, the expected sensitivity assuming the Standard Model production rate being 3.4σ. The corresponding cross-section is determined and found to be σWt=16.8±2.9 (stat)±4.9 (syst) pb, in good agreement with the Standard Model expectation. From this result the CKM matrix element |Vtb|=1.03−0.19 +0.16 is derived assuming that the Wt production through |Vts| and |Vtd| is small.",
keywords = "ATLAS, Single top-quark, Top quark, W+t",
author = "{Atlas Collaboration} and G. Aad and B. Abbott and J. Abdallah and {Abdel Khalek}, S. and Abdelalim, {A. A.} and O. Abdinov and B. Abi and M. Abolins and AbouZeid, {O. S.} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and E. Acerbi and Acharya, {B. S.} and L. Adamczyk and Adams, {D. L.} and Addy, {T. N.} and J. Adelman and S. Adomeit and P. Adragna and T. Adye and S. Aefsky and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and M. Aharrouche and Ahlen, {S. P.} and F. Ahles and A. Ahmad and M. Ahsan and G. Aielli and T. Akdogan and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and G. Akimoto and Akimov, {A. V.} and A. Akiyama and Alam, {M. S.} and Alam, {M. A.} and J. Albert and S. Albrand and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, {I. N.} and F. Alessandria and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and G. Alexandre and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and M. Aliev and G. Alimonti and J. Alison and A. Ishikawa and J. Strube",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT , Argentina; YerPhI , Armenia; ARC , Australia; BMWF , Austria; ANAS , Azerbaijan; SSTC , Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP , Brazil; NSERC , NRC and CFI , Canada; CERN ; CONICYT , Chile; CAS , MOST and NSFC , China; COLCIENCIAS , Colombia; MSMT CR , MPO CR and VSC CR , Czech Republic; DNRF , DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation , Denmark; EPLANET and ERC , European Union; IN2P3-CNRS , CEA-DSM/IRFU , France; GNAS , Georgia; BMBF , DFG , HGF , MPG and AvH Foundation , Germany; GSRT , Greece; ISF , MINERVA , GIF , DIP and Benoziyo Center , Israel; INFN , Italy; MEXT and JSPS , Japan; CNRST , Morocco; FOM and NWO , Netherlands; RCN , Norway; MNiSW , Poland; GRICES and FCT , Portugal; MERYS (MECTS) , Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM , Russian Federation; JINR ; MSTD , Serbia; MSSR , Slovakia; ARRS and MVZT , Slovenia; DST/NRF , South Africa; MICINN , Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation , Sweden; SER , SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva , Switzerland; NSC , Taiwan; TAEK , Turkey; STFC , the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust , United Kingdom; DOE and NSF , United States of America. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2012 CERN",
year = "2012",
month = sep,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.011",
language = "English",
volume = "716",
pages = "142--159",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1",
}