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

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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 ATLAS collaboration.
In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol. 76, No. 1, 12, 08.01.2016.

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The ATLAS collaboration 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', European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, vol. 76, no. 1, 12. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3851-5

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The ATLAS collaboration (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. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 76(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3851-5

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The ATLAS collaboration. Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to qZ in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at √s=8 TeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2016 Jan 8;76(1):12. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3851-5

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to qZ in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at √s=8 TeV. In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2016 ; Vol. 76, No. 1.

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title = "Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to qZ in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at √s=8 TeV",
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",
author = "Adam Barton and Michael Beattie and Guennadi Borissov and Bouhova-Thacker, {Evelina Vassileva} and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Grimm, {Kathryn Ann Tschann} and Henderson, {Robert Charles William} and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Long, {Robin Eamonn} and Love, {Peter Allan} and Harvey Maddocks and Malcolm Skinner and Maria Smizanska and Walder, {James William} and Andy Wharton and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva

AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann

AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

AU - Love, Peter Allan

AU - Maddocks, Harvey

AU - Skinner, Malcolm

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Walder, James William

AU - Wharton, Andy

AU - The ATLAS collaboration

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