Measurement of differential cross-sections of a single top quark produced in association with a $W$ boson at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with ATLAS

• Main Author: ATLAS collaboration (2876 authors)
• Publication Date: 2018
• Other Authors: Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio, Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia, Anjos, Nuno, Araque, Juan Pedro, Castro, Nuno Filipe, Conde Muiño, Patricia, Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose, Fiolhais, Miguel, Galhardo, Bruno, Gomes, Agostinho, Gonçalo, Ricardo, Jorge, Pedro, Machado Miguens, Joana, Maio, Amélia, Maneira, José, Oleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe, Onofre, António, Pedro, Rute, Santos, Helena, Saraiva, João, Silva, José, Tavares Delgado, Ademar, Veloso, Filipe, Wolters, Helmut
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5649-8; http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27515

The differential cross-section for the production of a W boson in association with a top quark is measured for several particle-level observables. The measurements are performed using ${36.1}\,\text {fb}^{-1}$ of pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. Differential cross-sections are measured in a fiducial phase space defined by the presence of two charged leptons and exactly one jet matched to a b-hadron, and are normalised with the fiducial cross-section. Results are found to be in good agreement with predictions from several Monte Carlo event generators.