Search for associated production of a Z boson with a single top quark and for tZ flavour-changing interactions in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV
A search for the production of a single top quark in association with a Z boson is presented, both to identify the expected standard model process and to search for flavourchanging neutral current interactions. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1 recorded by the...
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Springer Nature
2017
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| Summary: | A search for the production of a single top quark in association with a Z boson
is presented, both to identify the expected standard model process and to search for flavourchanging
neutral current interactions. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity
of 19.7 fb−1
recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions
at √
s = 8 TeV. Final states with three leptons (electrons or muons) and at least one jet are
investigated. An events yield compatible with tZq standard model production is observed,
and the corresponding cross section is measured to be σ(pp → tZq → `νb`
+`
−q) = 10+8
−7
fb
with a significance of 2.4 standard deviations. No presence of flavour-changing neutral
current production of tZq is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level on the
branching fractions of a top quark decaying to a Z boson and an up or a charm quark are
found to be B(t → Zu) < 0.022% and B(t → Zc) < 0.049%. |
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