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Measurement of top quark–antiquark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV
CMS Collaboration Bean, Alice
CMS Collaboration
Bean, Alice
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A measurement of the cross section for the production of top quark–antiquark pairs (tt¯) in association with a vector boson V (W or Z) in proton-proton collisions at s√=8 TeV is presented. The results are based on a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb−1 recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. The measurement is performed in three leptonic (e and μ) channels: a same-sign dilepton analysis targeting tt¯W events, and trilepton and four-lepton analyses designed for tt¯Z events. In the same-sign dilepton channel, the tt¯W cross section is measured as σtt¯W=170+90−80(stat)±70(syst)fb, corresponding to a significance of 1.6 standard deviations over the background-only hypothesis. Combining the trilepton and four-lepton channels, a direct measurement of the tt¯Z cross section, σtt¯Z=200+80−70(stat)+40−30(syst)fb−1, is obtained with a significance of 3.1 standard deviations. The measured cross sections are compatible with standard model predictions within their experimental uncertainties. The inclusive tt¯V process is observed with a significance of 3.7 standard deviations from the combination of all three leptonic channels.
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2014-09-17
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The CMS Collaboration. "Measurement of top quark–antiquark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV." The European Physical Journal C. September, 2014: v74(9). http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3060-7