Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector

ATLAS Publications; T.M. Carter; R.Y. Gonzalez Andana; A. Hasib; M.P. Heath; S. Palazzo; V.A. Parrish; E.P. Takeva; N. Themistokleous; E.M. Villhauer; E. Zaid

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.181901

Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector

ATLAS Publications, T.M. Carter, R.Y. Gonzalez Andana, A. Hasib, M.P. Heath, S. Palazzo, V.A. Parrish, E.P. Takeva, N. Themistokleous, E.M. Villhauer, E. Zaid

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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) +75−71(syst) fb, to be compared with the standard model prediction of 515+36−42 fb at next-to-leading order in QCD.

Original language	English
Article number	181901
Pages (from-to)	1-22
Number of pages	22
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	131
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.181901
Publication status	Published - 30 Oct 2023

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ATLAS Publications, Carter, T. M., Gonzalez Andana, R. Y., Hasib, A., Heath, M. P., Palazzo, S., Parrish, V. A., Takeva, E. P., Themistokleous, N., Villhauer, E. M., & Zaid, E. (2023). Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector. Physical Review Letters, 131(18), 1-22. Article 181901. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.181901

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