A search for the flavour-changing neutral-current decay t→qZ is presented. Data collected by the ATLAS detector during 2012 from proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1, are analysed. Top-quark pair-production events with one top quark decaying through the t→qZ (q=u,c) channel and the other through the dominant Standard Model mode t→bW are considered as signal. Only the decays of the Z boson to charged leptons and leptonic W boson decays are used. No evidence for a signal is found and an observed (expected) upper limit on the t→qZ branching ratio of 7×10-4 (8×10-4) is set at the 95 % confidence level

Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., et al. (2016). Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to qZ in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at √s=8 TeV. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 76(1), 1-24 [10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3851-5].

Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to qZ in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at √s=8 TeV

Ceradini, F.;Di Micco, B.;Di Nardo, R.;Orestano, D.;Petrucci, F.;Puddu, D.;Salamanna, G.;Sessa, M.;Taccini, C.;
2016-01-01

Abstract

A search for the flavour-changing neutral-current decay t→qZ is presented. Data collected by the ATLAS detector during 2012 from proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1, are analysed. Top-quark pair-production events with one top quark decaying through the t→qZ (q=u,c) channel and the other through the dominant Standard Model mode t→bW are considered as signal. Only the decays of the Z boson to charged leptons and leptonic W boson decays are used. No evidence for a signal is found and an observed (expected) upper limit on the t→qZ branching ratio of 7×10-4 (8×10-4) is set at the 95 % confidence level
2016
Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., et al. (2016). Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to qZ in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at √s=8 TeV. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 76(1), 1-24 [10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3851-5].
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