Measurement of the cross section for top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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Sirunyan, A. M
Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Ambrogi, F.
Asilar, E.
Bergauer, T.
Brandstetter, J.
Brondolin, E.
Dragicevic, M.
Erö, J.
Date Issued
August 2018
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Sirunyan, A. M. et al. "Measurement of the cross section for top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV." Journal of High Energy Physics 2018 (August 2018): 11 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
A measurement is performed of the cross section of top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb[superscript −1], collected by the CMS experiment in 2016. The measurement is performed in the same-sign dilepton, three- and four-lepton final states. The production cross sections are measured to be σ (t[overline t]W) = 0.77[subscript −0.11][superscript +0.12](stat)[subscript −0.12][superscript +0.13](syst)pb and σ (t[overline t]Z) = 0.99 [subscript −0.08] [superscript +0.09](stat)[subscript − 0.10][superscript +0.12](syst) pb. The expected (observed) signal significance for the t[overline t]W production in same-sign dilepton channel is found to be 4.5 (5.3) standard deviations, while for the t[overline t]Z production in three- and four-lepton channels both the expected and the observed significances are found to be in excess of 5 standard deviations. The results are in agreement with the standard model predictions and are used to constrain the Wilson coefficients for eight dimension-six operators describing new interactions that would modify
t[overline t]W and t[overline t]Z production. Keywords:
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Top physics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2018)011
