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A. and and Borrello, L. and Carlsmith, D. and Cepeda, M. and Dasu, S. and and Duric, S. and Friis, E. and Grothe, M. and Hall-Wilton, R. and Herndon, and M. and Herve, A. and Klabbers, P. and Klukas, J. and Lanaro, A. and and Levine, A. and Loveless, R. and Mohapatra, A. and Ojalvo, I. and Perry, and T. and Pierro, G. A. and Polese, G. and Ross, I. and Sakharov, A. and and Sarangi, T. and Savin, A. and Smith, W. H. and CMS Collaboration", journal = "Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Index", year = "2014", volume = "112", number = "23", publisher = "AMER PHYSICAL SOC", issn = "0094-0003", doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.231802", 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 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at root 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 (tt) over 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." }