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

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Aad, Georges , Abbott, Braden Keim , Abbott, D.C. , Abeling, Kira , Abidi, Haider , Aboulhorma, Asmaa , Abramowicz, Halina , Abreu, Henso , Abulaiti, Yiming , Abusleme Hoffman, A.C.
JHEP 06 (2023) 191, 2023.

Abstract (data 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 $\sigma=8.2^{+3.5}_{-2.9}$ pb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction of $\sigma^{\mathrm{SM}}=10.32^{+0.40}_{-0.36}$ pb.

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