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

• Main Authors: Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A. R., Adam, Wolfgang, Asilar, Ece, Bergauer, Thomas, Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Springer Nature 2017
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QC Physics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/63060/1/63060_earch%20for%20associated%20production%20of%20a%20Z%20boson_article.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/63060/2/63060_earch%20for%20associated%20production%20of%20a%20Z%20boson_scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/63060/; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FJHEP07%282017%29003.pdf

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...