This Letter reports the observation of single top quarks produced together with a photon, which directly probes the electroweak coupling of the top quark. The analysis uses 139 fb^{-1} of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Requiring a photon with transverse momentum larger than 20 GeV and within the detector acceptance, the fiducial cross section is measured to be 688±23(stat) _{-71}^{+75}(syst) fb, to be compared with the standard model prediction of 515_{-42}^{+36} fb at next-to-leading order in QCD.
Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector / Betti, Alessandra; DE SALVO, Alessandro; Di Domenico, Antonio.; Dionisi, Carlo.; Bini, Cesare; Luci, Claudio; Morodei, Federico; Lacava, Francesco; SAFAI TEHRANI, Francesco; Artoni, Giacomo; Santi, Lorenzo; Padovano, Giovanni; Martinelli, Luca; Maiani, Luciano; Bauce, Matteo; Gauzzi, Paolo; Gentile, Simonetta; Giagu, Stefano; Ippolito, Valerio. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 131:18(2023), p. 181901. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.181901]
Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector
Betti Alessandra;De Salvo Alessandro;Di Domenico Antonio.;Dionisi Carlo.;Bini Cesare;Luci Claudio;Morodei Federico;Lacava Francesco;Safai Tehrani Francesco;Artoni Giacomo;Santi Lorenzo;Padovano Giovanni;Martinelli Luca;Maiani Luciano;Bauce Matteo;Gauzzi Paolo;Gentile Simonetta;Giagu Stefano;Ippolito Valerio
2023
Abstract
This Letter reports the observation of single top quarks produced together with a photon, which directly probes the electroweak coupling of the top quark. The analysis uses 139 fb^{-1} of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Requiring a photon with transverse momentum larger than 20 GeV and within the detector acceptance, the fiducial cross section is measured to be 688±23(stat) _{-71}^{+75}(syst) fb, to be compared with the standard model prediction of 515_{-42}^{+36} fb at next-to-leading order in QCD.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
