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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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Abstract 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.
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2023-07-28
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152182
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Citation
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023 Jul 28;2023(7):219
Version: Final published version

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