Measurement of differential cross sections and charge ratios for t-channel single top quark production in proton-proton collisions at mml:msqrts mml:msqrt=13 mml:mspace width="0.166667em"mml:mspaceTe mml:mspace width="0.333333em"mml:mspace

(CMS Collaboration) Sirunyan, Albert M; Antunović, Željko; Brigljević, Vuko; Ceci, Saša; Ferenček, Dinko; Giljanović, Duje; Godinović, Nikola; Kadija, Krešo; Kovač, Marko; Lelas, Damir; Luetić, Jelena; Majumder, Devdatta; Mesić, Benjamin; Puljak, Ivica; Roguljić, Matej; Starodumov, Andrey; Đurić, Senka; Šuša, Tatjana; Šćulac, Toni; Woods, Nathaniel (2020) Measurement of differential cross sections and charge ratios for t-channel single top quark production in proton-proton collisions at mml:msqrts mml:msqrt=13 mml:mspace width="0.166667em"mml:mspaceTe mml:mspace width="0.333333em"mml:mspace. European physical journal C : particles and fields, 80 (5). ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

A measurement is presented of differential cross sections for t-channel single top quark and antiquark production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 mml:mspace> by the CMS experiment at the LHC. From a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 mml:mspacefb-1, events containing one muon or electron and two or three jets are analysed. The cross section is measured as a function of the top quark transverse momentum (pT), rapidity, and polarisation angle, the charged lepton pT and rapidity, and the pT of the W boson from the top quark decay. In addition, the charge ratio is measured differentially as a function of the top quark, charged lepton, and W boson kinematic observables. The results are found to be in agreement with standard model predictions using various next-to-leading-order event generators and sets of parton distribution functions. Additionally, the spin asymmetry, sensitive to the top quark polarisation, is determined from the differential distribution of the polarisation angle at parton level to be 0.440 +/- 0.070, in agreement with the standard model prediction.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Particle Physics Experiments ; Physics ; Vector boson scattering ; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) ; Supersymmetry ; Higgs physics ; Particle and resonance production ; B physics ; Particle correlations and fluctuations ; Quarkonium ; Elementary Particles and Fields ; Beyond Standard Model ; Jets ; QCD ; Top physics ; Diboson ; Electroweak ; CKM matrix ; Top quark ; Large detector-systems performance ; Pattern recognition
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics
Divisions:	Division of Experimental Physics
Depositing User:	Kristina Ciglar
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2021 11:45
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/6296
DOI:	10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7858-1

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