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

ATLAS Collaboration

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Abstract

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

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181901
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume131
Issue number18
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Nov 2023

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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