Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays \(t\) -> \({qZ}\) in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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- A search for flavour-changing neutral-current processes in top-quark decays is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1), are analysed. The search is performed using top-quark pair events, with one top quark decaying through the t -> qZ (q = u, c) flavour-changing neutral-current channel, and the other through the dominant Standard Model mode t -> bW. Only Z boson decays intoA search for flavour-changing neutral-current processes in top-quark decays is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1), are analysed. The search is performed using top-quark pair events, with one top quark decaying through the t -> qZ (q = u, c) flavour-changing neutral-current channel, and the other through the dominant Standard Model mode t -> bW. Only Z boson decays into charged leptons and leptonic W boson decays are considered as signal. Consequently, the final-state topology is characterized by the presence of three isolated charged leptons (electrons or muons), at least two jets, one of the jets originating from a b-quark, and missing transverse momentum from the undetected neutrino. The data are consistent with Standard Model background contributions, and at 95% confidence level the search sets observed (expected) upper limits of 1.7 x 10(-4) (2.4 x 10(-4)) on the t -> uZ branching ratio and 2.4 x 10(-4) (3.2 x 10(-4)) on the t -> cZ branching ratio, constituting the most stringent limits to date.…
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-226114 |
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| Document Type: | Journal article |
| Faculties: | Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie / Physikalisches Institut |
| Language: | English |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Year of Completion: | 2018 |
| Volume: | 176 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Pagenumber: | 1-40 |
| Source: | J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 176 (2018). doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2018)176 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)176 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Tag: | ++; Cross-Section; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Models; Pair-Production; Parton Distributions; Physics |
| Release Date: | 2023/10/18 |
| Creating Corporation: | The ATLAS Collaboration |
| Licence (German): |  CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |