"This document reports on the search for the production of a top quark in association with a Z boson using data from the ATLAS detector. The data was collected during 2015, from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV delivered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. To isolate this production mode, selection requirements are made on the three leptons, b-quark jet and light quark jet that tZ naturally contains. A profile likelihood fit is performed to put an upper limit on the Standard Model predicted cross-section. The resulting measurement is consistent with the Standard Model prediction."--Page ii.
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