Measurement of the associated production of a single top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ TeV
(2018) Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics — Vol. B779, p. 358-384 (2018)
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David, Pieter 
Wertz, Sébastien - et. al.
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- A measurement is presented of the associated production of a single top quark and a Z boson. The study uses data from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. Using final states with three leptons (electrons or muons), the tZq production cross section is measured to be $\sigma$(pp$\to$tZq$\to$Wb$\ell^+\ell^-$q) = $123^{+33}_{-31}$ (stat) $^{+29}_{-23}$ (syst) fb, where $\ell$ stands for electrons, muons, or $\tau$ leptons, with observed and expected significances of 3.7 and 3.1 standard deviations, respectively.
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Bakhshiansohi, H., Bondu, O., Brochet, S., Bruno, G., Caputo, C., David, P., de Visscher, S., Delaere, C., Delcourt, M., François, B., Giammanco, A., Komm, M., Krintiras, G., Lemaitre, V., Magitteri, A., Musich, M., Piotrzkowski, K., Saggio, A., Vidal Maroño, M., et al. (2018). Measurement of the associated production of a single top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ TeV. Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, B779, 358-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.025 (Original work published 2018)