Measurement of the cross section of top quark-antiquark pair production in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Andrejkovic, J. W.; Bergauer, T.; Chatterjee, S.; Damanakis, K.; Dragicevic, M.; Escalante Del Valle, A.; Hussain, P. S.; Jeitler, M.; Krammer, N.; Lechner, L.; Liko, D.; Mikulec, I.; Paulitsch, P.; Pitters, F. M.; Schieck, J.; Schöfbeck, R.; ... Show more Show less
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The production of a top quark-antiquark pair in association with a W boson (
t
t
¯
W
$$ \textrm{t}\overline{\textrm{t}}\textrm{W} $$
) is measured in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The analyzed data was recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. Events with two or three leptons (electrons and muons) and additional jets are selected. In events with two leptons, a multiclass neural network is used to distinguish between the signal and background processes. Events with three leptons are categorized based on the number of jets and of jets originating from b quark hadronization, and the lepton charges. The inclusive
t
t
¯
W
$$ \textrm{t}\overline{\textrm{t}}\textrm{W} $$
production cross section in the full phase space is measured to be 868 ± 40(stat) ± 51(syst) fb. The
t
t
¯
W
$$ \textrm{t}\overline{\textrm{t}}\textrm{W} $$
+ and
t
t
¯
W
$$ \textrm{t}\overline{\textrm{t}}\textrm{W} $$
− cross sections are also measured as 553 ± 30(stat) ± 30(syst) and 343 ± 26(stat) ± 25(syst) fb, respectively, and the corresponding ratio of the two cross sections is found to be
1.61
±
0.15
stat
−
0.05
+
0.07
syst
$$ 1.61\pm 0.15{\left(\textrm{stat}\right)}_{-0.05}^{+0.07}\left(\textrm{syst}\right) $$
. The measured cross sections are larger than but consistent with the standard model predictions within two standard deviations, and represent the most precise measurement of these cross sections to date.
Date issued
2023-07-28Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsPublisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Citation
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023 Jul 28;2023(7):219
Version: Final published version