Observation of tW production in the single-lepton channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Bibliographic Details
Parent link:Journal of High Energy Physics
Vol. 2021, iss. 11.— 2021.— [111, 39 p.]
Corporate Author: Национальный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет Исследовательская школа физики высокоэнергетических процессов
Other Authors: Tumasyan A. R., Adam W. Wolfgang, Andrejkovic J. W. Aleksandr Dmitrievich, Babaev A. A. Anton Anatoljevich, Okhotnikov V. V. Vitaly Vladimirovich
Summary:Title screen
A measurement of the cross section of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in final states with a muon or electron and jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2016. A boosted decision tree is used to separate the tW signal from the dominant tt¯t¯ background, whilst the subleading W+jets and multijet backgrounds are constrained using data-based estimates. This result is the first observation of the tW process in final states containing a muon or electron and jets, with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations. The cross section is determined to be 89 ± 4 (stat) ± 12 (syst) pb, consistent with the standard model.
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2021)111
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=668745
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Summary:Title screen
A measurement of the cross section of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in final states with a muon or electron and jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2016. A boosted decision tree is used to separate the tW signal from the dominant tt¯t¯ background, whilst the subleading W+jets and multijet backgrounds are constrained using data-based estimates. This result is the first observation of the tW process in final states containing a muon or electron and jets, with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations. The cross section is determined to be 89 ± 4 (stat) ± 12 (syst) pb, consistent with the standard model.
DOI:10.1007/JHEP11(2021)111