Cross Section Measurement of t -Channel Single Top Quark Production in pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV

• Main Authors: CMS Collaboration (Author), Abercrombie, Daniel Robert (Contributor), Allen, Brandon Leigh (Contributor), Apyan, Aram (Contributor), Azzolini, Virginia (Contributor), Barbieri, Richard Alexander (Contributor), Baty, Austin Alan (Contributor), Bi, Ran (Contributor), Bierwagen, Katharina (Contributor), Brandt, Stephanie Akemi (Contributor), Busza, Wit (Contributor), Cali, Ivan Amos (Contributor), Demiragli, Zeynep (Contributor), Di Matteo, Leonardo (Contributor), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Hsu, Dylan George (Contributor), Iiyama, Yutaro (Contributor), Innocenti, Gian Michele (Contributor), Klute, Markus (Contributor), Kovalskyi, Dmytro (Contributor), Krajczar, Krisztian F. (Contributor), Lai, Yue Shi (Contributor), Lee, Yen-Jie (Contributor), Levin, Amy Elizabeth (Contributor), Luckey Jr, P David (Contributor), Maier, Benedikt (Contributor), Marini, Andrea Carlo (Contributor), McGinn, Christopher Francis (Contributor), Mironov, Camelia Maria (Contributor), Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan (Contributor), Niu, Xinmei (Contributor), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor), Roland, Christof E (Contributor), Roland, Gunther M (Contributor), Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry (Contributor), Stephans, George S. F. (Contributor), Tatar, Kaya (Contributor), Varma, Mukund Madhav (Contributor), Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru (Contributor), Veverka, Jan (Contributor), Wang, Jing (Contributor), Wang, Ta-Wei (Contributor), Wyslouch, Boleslaw (Contributor), Yang, Ming (Contributor), Wyslouch, Victoria (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV, 2018-06-07T20:05:19Z.
• Subjects: Article
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The cross section for the production of single top quarks in the t channel is measured in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.2fb[superscript −1]. The event selection requires one muon and two jets where one of the jets is identified as originating from a bottom quark. Several kinematic variables are then combined into a multivariate discriminator to distinguish signal from background events. A fit to the distribution of the discriminating variable yields a total cross section of 238±13(stat)±29(syst) pb and a ratio of top quark and top antiquark production of R t-ch. =1.81±0.18(stat)±0.15(syst). From the total cross section the absolute value of the CKM matrix element V[subscript tb] is calculated to be 1.05±0.07(exp)±0.02(theo). All results are in agreement with the standard model predictions.