Measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel in proton$-$proton collisions at $\sqrt{\mathrm{s}}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

A measurement of single top-quark production in the s-channel is performed in proton$-$proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb${}^{-1}$. The analysis is performed on events with an electron or muon, missing transverse momentum and exactly two $b$-tagged jets in the final state. A discriminant based on matrix element calculations is used to separate single-top-quark s-channel events from the main background contributions, which are top-quark pair production and $W$-boson production in association with jets. The observed (expected) signal significance over the background-only hypothesis is 3.3 (3.9) standard deviations, and the measured cross-section is $\sigma =8.2_{-2.9}^{+3.5}$ pb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction of ${\sigma }^{\mathrm{SM}}=10.32_{-0.36}^{+0.40}$ pb.

26 pages in total, 7 figures, 2 tables, submitted to JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2018-04/

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