{
  "id": "1401.2942",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2014-01-13T18:24:58.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-06-10T16:40:46.000Z",
  "title": "Observation of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV",
  "authors": [
    "CMS Collaboration"
  ],
  "comment": "Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 231802",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.231802",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "The first observation of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson is presented. The analysis is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12.2 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Events with two leptons and a jet originating from a b quark are selected. A multivariate analysis based on kinematic and topological properties is used to separate the signal from the dominant t t-bar background. An excess consistent with the signal hypothesis is observed, with a significance which corresponds to 6.1 standard deviations above a background-only hypothesis. The measured production cross section is 23.4 +- 5.4 pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2014-06-10T16:40:46.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "13.85.Ni",
      "12.15.Hh",
      "13.85.Qk",
      "14.65.Ha",
      "12.15.Mm",
      "12.60.-i"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "associated production",
      "pp collisions",
      "measured production cross section",
      "standard model prediction",
      "proton-proton collisions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 112,
      "number": 17,
      "pages": 171802
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1276827,
      "adsabs": "2014PhRvL.112q1802C"
    }
  }
}