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Measurement of the differential cross sections of top quark pair production as a function of kinematic event variables in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV
Abstract: Measurements of the differential $\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}$ production cross section are presented in the single lepton decay channel, with respect to a number of global event observables. The measurements are performed with 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC during 2016 at $\sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV. The differential cross sections are measured at the particle level in a phase space similar to that accessible by the CMS detector, and are compared to state-of-the-art leading order and next-to-leading order $\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}$ simulations.
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Figure 1:
The distributions of $ {H_{\mathrm {T}}} $, $ {S_{\text {T}}} $, $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $ and $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $ after full event selection. The $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulation is normalized to the NNLO prediction. The ratio of the number of events in data to that in simulation is shown below each of the distributions, with the statistical uncertainty in the data being shown by the vertical uncertainty bars. The statistical uncertainty in the number of simulation events and the uncertainties in the modeling in simulation are shown by the hatched band.

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Figure 1-a:
Distributions of $ {H_{\mathrm {T}}} $ after full event selection. The $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulation is normalized to the NNLO prediction. The ratio of the number of events in data to that in simulation is shown below the distribution, with the statistical uncertainty in the data being shown by the vertical uncertainty bars. The statistical uncertainty in the number of simulation events and the uncertainties in the modeling in simulation are shown by the hatched band.

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Figure 1-b:
Distributions of $ {S_{\text {T}}} $ after full event selection. The $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulation is normalized to the NNLO prediction. The ratio of the number of events in data to that in simulation is shown below the distribution, with the statistical uncertainty in the data being shown by the vertical uncertainty bars. The statistical uncertainty in the number of simulation events and the uncertainties in the modeling in simulation are shown by the hatched band.

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Figure 1-c:
Distributions of $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $ after full event selection. The $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulation is normalized to the NNLO prediction. The ratio of the number of events in data to that in simulation is shown below the distribution, with the statistical uncertainty in the data being shown by the vertical uncertainty bars. The statistical uncertainty in the number of simulation events and the uncertainties in the modeling in simulation are shown by the hatched band.

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Figure 1-d:
Distributions of $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $ after full event selection. The $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulation is normalized to the NNLO prediction. The ratio of the number of events in data to that in simulation is shown below the distribution, with the statistical uncertainty in the data being shown by the vertical uncertainty bars. The statistical uncertainty in the number of simulation events and the uncertainties in the modeling in simulation are shown by the hatched band.

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Figure 2:
The distributions of $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $, and $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ after full event selection. The $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulation is normalized to the NNLO prediction. The ratio of the number of events in data to that in simulation is shown below each of the distributions, with the statistical uncertainty in the data being shown by the vertical uncertainty bars. The statistical uncertainty in the number of simulation events, and the uncertainties in modeling in simulation are shown by the hatched band.

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Figure 2-a:
The distributions of $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $ after full event selection. The $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulation is normalized to the NNLO prediction. The ratio of the number of events in data to that in simulation is shown below the distribution, with the statistical uncertainty in the data being shown by the vertical uncertainty bars. The statistical uncertainty in the number of simulation events, and the uncertainties in modeling in simulation are shown by the hatched band.

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Figure 2-b:
The distributions of $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ after full event selection. The $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulation is normalized to the NNLO prediction. The ratio of the number of events in data to that in simulation is shown below the distribution, with the statistical uncertainty in the data being shown by the vertical uncertainty bars. The statistical uncertainty in the number of simulation events, and the uncertainties in modeling in simulation are shown by the hatched band.

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Figure 3:
Normalized $ {H_{\mathrm {T}}} $ and $ {S_{\text {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations in the left plots, and compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties in the right plots. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plots show the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 3-a:
Normalized $ {H_{\mathrm {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 3-b:
Normalized $ {H_{\mathrm {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 3-c:
Normalized $ {S_{\text {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 3-d:
Normalized $ {S_{\text {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 4:
Normalized $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $ and $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations in the left plots, and compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties in the right plots. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plots show the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 4-a:
Normalized $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 4-b:
Normalized $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 4-c:
Normalized $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 4-d:
Normalized $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 5:
Normalized $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $ and $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations in the left plots, and compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties in the right plots. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plots show the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 5-a:
Normalized $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 5-b:
Normalized $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section,compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 5-c:
Normalized $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 5-d:
Normalized $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section,compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 6:
Absolute $ {H_{\mathrm {T}}} $ and $ {S_{\text {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations in the left plots, and compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties in the right plots. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plots show the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 6-a:
Absolute $ {H_{\mathrm {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 6-b:
Absolute $ {H_{\mathrm {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 6-c:
Absolute $ {S_{\text {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 6-d:
Absolute $ {S_{\text {T}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 7:
Absolute $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $ and $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations in the left plots, and compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties in the right plots. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plots show the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 7-a:
Absolute $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 7-b:
Absolute $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties.The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 7-c:
Absolute $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 7-d:
Absolute $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 8:
Absolute $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $ and $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross sections, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations in the left plots, and compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties in the right plots. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plots show the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 8-a:
Absolute $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 8-b:
Absolute $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 8-c:
Absolute $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to different $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ simulations. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.

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Figure 8-d:
Absolute $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ differential $ {\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } $ cross section, compared to the POWHEG+PYTHIA-8 simulation after varying the shower scales, and $ {h_{\text {damp}}} $ parameter, within their uncertainties. The vertical bars on the data represent the statistical and systematic uncertainties added in quadrature. The lower plot shows the ratio of the predictions to the data.
Tables

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Table 1:
Results of a $\chi ^{2}$ test between the normalised cross sections in data and several simulation models.

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Table 2:
Results of a $\chi ^{2}$ test between the absolute cross sections in data and several simulation models.
Summary
Normalized and absolute differential $ \mathrm{ t \bar{t} } $ production cross sections with respect to the kinematic event variables $ H_{\mathrm{T}} $, $ { {p_{\mathrm {T}}} ^\text {miss}} $, $ {S_{\text {T}}} $, $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\mathrm{ W } }} $, $ {p_{\text {T}}^{\ell}} $, and $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ have been measured using 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment and have been presented at particle level in a fiducial phase space. The total cross section was observed to be consistent with previous results, and the differential measurements have been compared to several $\mathrm{ t \bar{t} }$ production simulations: powheg+pythia, powheg+herwig, MadGRAPH+aMCCatNLO (leading order), and MadGRAPH+aMCCatNLO (next-to-leading order).

The powheg+pythia simulation was shown to be consistent with the data with a p-value of 0.96, including theoretical uncertainties. The $ {N_{\text {jets}}} $ distribution was particularly well-modeled, having been tuned on LHC 8 TeV data. Modeling of variables correlated with the top quark $p_{\mathrm{T}} $ were found to less consistent, as has been noted in other measurements. Comparing different simulations, the best agreement between the unfolded data and $\mathrm{ t \bar{t} } $ simulation was found with powheg+herwig, particularly in the top $p_{\mathrm{T}}$-correlated variables. The next-to-leading MadGRAPH+aMCCatNLO modeling was shown to have a similar level of consistency to powheg+herwig, and significantly better than that from leading order MadGRAPH+aMCCatNLO.
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