| Authors | G. Aad, . et al, S. Bentvelsen, A.P. Colijn, A. Doxiadis, H. Garitaonandia, D.A.A. Geerts, M. Gosselink, P. de Jong, M.S. Kayl, Z. van Kesteren, E. Koffeman, E. van der Kraaij, H.C. Lee, R.H.L. van der Leeuw, F.L. Linde, J. Mechnich, I. Mussche, L. de Nooij, J.P. Ottersbach, M. Tsiakiris, J.C. Vermeulen, M. Vreeswijk, I. van Vulpen, E. van der Poel, M. Rijpstra, N. Ruckstuhl | | Title | Search for FCNC single top-quark production at sqrt s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
| Journal | Physics Letters B |
| Volume | 712 |
| Year | 2012 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 351-369 |
| ISSN | 03702693 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Science |
| Institute/dept. | FNWI: Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF) |
| Abstract | A search for the production of single top-quarks via flavour-changing neutral-currents is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of View the MathML source, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb−1, are used. Candidate events with a semileptonic top-quark decay signature are classified as signal- or background-like events by using several kinematic variables as input to a neural network. No signal is observed in the neural network output distribution and a Bayesian upper limit is placed on the production cross-section. The observed upper limit at 95% confidence level on the cross-section multiplied by the t→Wb branching fraction is measured to be σqg→t×B(t→Wb)<3.9 pb. This upper limit is converted using a model-independent approach into upper limits on the coupling strengths κugt/Λ<6.9⋅10−3 TeV−1 and κcgt/Λ<1.6⋅10−2 TeV−1, where Λ is the new physics scale, and on the branching fractions B(t→ug)<5.7⋅10−5 and B(t→cg)<2.7⋅10−4. |
| Document type | Article |
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