Abstract
Evidence is presented for the associated production of a single top quark and boson in collisions at with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of . The measurement is performed using events with two leptons and a jet originated from a quark. A multivariate analysis based on kinematic properties is utilized to separate the background from the signal. The observed signal has a significance of and corresponds to a cross section of , in agreement with the standard model expectation of .
- Received 16 September 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.022003
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