Inclusive and differential cross-sections measurements in the single top tW e-mu channel with CMS
Abstract
Inclusive and normalised differential cross sections measurements are presented for the production of single top quarks in association with a W boson, in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Events containing one muon and one electron in the final state are analysed. For the inclusive measurement, a multivariate discriminant, exploiting the kinematic properties of the events, is used to separate the signal from the dominant t$\bar{\mathrm{t}}$ background. For the differential measurements, a fiducial region is defined according to the detector acceptance, and the requirement of exactly one b-tagged jet. The resulting distributions are unfolded to particle-level and compared with predictions at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Within current uncertainties, all predictions agree with the data.
- Publication:
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European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2112.08976
- Bibcode:
- 2022epsc.confE.444R
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- YSF plenary talk at the 14th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (videoconference)