In:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 2018, No. 7 ( 2018-07)
Abstract:
A search for flavour-changing neutral-current processes in top-quark decays is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb −1 , are analysed. The search is performed using top-quark pair events, with one top quark decaying through the t → qZ ( q = u , c ) flavour-changing neutral-current channel, and the other through the dominant Standard Model mode t → bW . Only Z boson decays into charged leptons and leptonic W boson decays are considered as signal. Consequently, the final-state topology is characterized by the presence of three isolated charged leptons (electrons or muons), at least two jets, one of the jets originating from a b -quark, and missing transverse momentum from the undetected neutrino. The data are consistent with Standard Model background contributions, and at 95% confidence level the search sets observed (expected) upper limits of 1.7 × 10 −4 (2.4 × 10 −4 ) on the t → uZ branching ratio and 2.4 × 10 −4 (3.2 × 10 −4 ) on the t → cZ branching ratio, constituting the most stringent limits to date.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1029-8479
DOI:
10.1007/JHEP07(2018)176
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2018
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2027350-2
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