@article{4259187c518842e6bf427c8eddc24057,
title = "Observation of tW production in the single-lepton channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV",
abstract = "A measurement of the cross section of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in final states with a muon or electron and jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2016. A boosted decision tree is used to separate the tW signal from the dominant tt ¯ background, whilst the subleading W+jets and multijet backgrounds are constrained using data-based estimates. This result is the first observation of the tW process in final states containing a muon or electron and jets, with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations. The cross section is determined to be 89 ± 4 (stat) ± 12 (syst) pb, consistent with the standard model. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]",
keywords = "Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Top physics",
author = "{The CMS collaboration} and A. Tumasyan and W. Adam and Andrejkovic, {J. W.} and T. Bergauer and S. Chatterjee and M. Dragicevic and {Escalante Del Valle}, A. and R. Fr{\"u}hwirth and M. Jeitler and N. Krammer and L. Lechner and D. Liko and I. Mikulec and P. Paulitsch and Pitters, {F. M.} and J. Schieck and R. Sch{\"o}fbeck and M. Spanring and S. Templ and W. Waltenberger and Wulz, {C. E.} and V. Chekhovsky and A. Litomin and V. Makarenko and Darwish, {M. R.} and {De Wolf}, {E. A.} and X. Janssen and T. Kello and A. Lelek and {Rejeb Sfar}, H. and {Van Mechelen}, P. and {Van Putte}, S. and {Van Remortel}, N. and F. Blekman and Bols, {E. S.} and J. D{\textquoteright}Hondt and {De Clercq}, J. and M. Delcourt and {El Faham}, H. and S. Lowette and S. Moortgat and A. Morton and D. M{\"u}ller and Sahasransu, {A. R.} and S. Tavernier and N. Akchurin and S. Kunori and Lee, {S. W.} and I. Volobouev and A. Whitbeck",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s).",
year = "2021",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1007/JHEP11(2021)111",
language = "English",
volume = "2021",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1126-6708",
number = "11",
}