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A search for flavour changing neutral currents in top-quark decays in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at √s=7 TeV

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  • A search for flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) processes in top-quark decays by the ATLAS Collaboration is presented. Data collected from pp collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=7TeV during 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb\(^{−1}\), were used. A search was performed for top-quark pair-production events, with one top quark decaying through the t → Zq FCNC (q = u, c) channel, and the other through the Standard Model dominant mode t → W b. Only the decays of the Z boson to charged leptons andA search for flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) processes in top-quark decays by the ATLAS Collaboration is presented. Data collected from pp collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=7TeV during 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb\(^{−1}\), were used. A search was performed for top-quark pair-production events, with one top quark decaying through the t → Zq FCNC (q = u, c) channel, and the other through the Standard Model dominant mode t → W b. Only the decays of the Z boson to charged leptons and leptonic W -boson decays were considered as signal. Consequently, the final-state topology is characterised by the presence of three isolated charged leptons, at least two jets and missing transverse momentum from the undetected neutrino. No evidence for an FCNC signal was found. An upper limit on the t → Zq branching ratio of BR(t → Zq) < 0.73% is set at the 95% confidence level.show moreshow less

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URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-129152
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
Language:English
Parent Title (English):Journal of High Energy Physics
Year of Completion:2012
Volume:9
Issue:139
Source:Journal of High Energy Physics 09 (2012) 139. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2012)139
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)139
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 539 Moderne Physik
Tag:flavour changing; hadron hadron scattering; neutral currents; rare decays; top physics
Release Date:2016/11/23
Creating Corporation:ATLAS Collaboration
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung