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| CMS-HIN-17-002 ; CERN-EP-2017-239 | ||
| Observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions | ||
| CMS Collaboration | ||
| 21 September 2017 | ||
| Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017) 242001 | ||
| Abstract: The first observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions is reported using proton-lead data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{\smash[b]{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}} = $ 8.16 TeV. The measurement is performed using events with exactly one isolated electron or muon and at least four jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 174 nb$^{-1}$. The significance of the $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ signal against the background-only hypothesis is above five standard deviations. The measured cross section is $\sigma_{\mathrm{t\bar{t}}} = $ 45 $\pm$ 8 nb, consistent with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics. | ||
| Links: e-print arXiv:1709.07411 [hep-ex] (PDF) ; CDS record ; inSPIRE record ; HepData record ; CADI line (restricted) ; | ||
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| Figures | |
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Figure 1:
Invariant mass distributions of the W candidate, ${m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}}$, in the 0 (left), 1 (center), and 2 (right) b-tagged jet categories after all selections. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Figure 1-a:
Invariant mass distribution of the W candidate, ${m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}}$, in the 0 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Figure 1-b:
Invariant mass distribution of the W candidate, ${m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}}$, in the 1 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Figure 1-c:
Invariant mass distribution of the W candidate, ${m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}}$, in the 2 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Figure 2:
Invariant mass distributions of the $\mathrm{t} \to {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates, ${m_\text {top}}$, in the 0 (left), 1 (center), and 2 (right) b-tagged jet categories after all selections. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the ${m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}}$ fit. Symbols and patterns are the same as in Fig. xxxxx. |
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Figure 2-a:
Invariant mass distribution of the $\mathrm{t} \to {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates, ${m_\text {top}}$, in the 0 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the ${m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}}$ fit. Symbols and patterns are the same as in Fig. 1. |
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Figure 2-b:
Invariant mass distribution of the $\mathrm{t} \to {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates, ${m_\text {top}}$, in the 1 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the ${m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}}$ fit. Symbols and patterns are the same as in Fig. 1. |
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Figure 2-c:
Invariant mass distribution of the $\mathrm{t} \to {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates, ${m_\text {top}}$, in the 2 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the ${m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}}$ fit. Symbols and patterns are the same as in Fig. 1. |
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Figure 3:
Total ${\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $ cross sections measured in the e+jets, $\mu $+jets, and combined $\ell $+jets channels in pPb collisions at $ {\sqrt {\smash [b]{s_{_{\mathrm {NN}}}}}} = $ 8.16 TeV, compared to theoretical NNLO+NNLL predictions, and to scaled $ {\sqrt {\smash [b]{s}}} = $ 8 TeV pp results [38,39]. The total experimental error bars (theoretical error bands) include statistical and systematic (PDF and scale) uncertainties added in quadrature. |
| Summary |
| In summary, the top pair production cross section has been measured for the first time in proton-nucleus collisions, using pPb data at $\sqrt{\smash[b]{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}} = $ 8.16 TeV with a total integrated luminosity of 174 nb$^{-1}$. The measurement is performed by analyzing events with exactly one isolated electron or muon and at least four jets. The significance of the $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ signal against the background-only hypothesis is above five standard deviations.The measured cross section is $\sigma_{\mathrm{t\bar{t}}} = $ 45 $\pm$ 8 nb, consistent with the expectations from scaled pp data as well as perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations. This first measurement paves the way for further detailed investigations of top quark production in nuclear interactions, providing in particular a new tool for studies of the strongly interacting matter created in nucleus-nucleus collisions. |
| Additional Figures | |
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Additional Figure 1:
Dijet invariant mass spectrum ($ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $) obtained by using different algorithms in the pairing of the jets in each event: distance-based ($\min\Delta R_{\mathrm{jj}}$), $ {p_{\mathrm {T}}} $-based (leading $ {p_{\mathrm {T}}} $), and by minimizing the distance to the W boson mass $ m_{\mathrm{W}} $ ($\mathrm{min}( | {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} -m_\mathrm{W} | )$). Pairs fully matched to $\mathrm{W} \rightarrow \mathrm{q} \mathrm{\bar{q}} $ decays are shown in the left panel, while pairs where at least one reconstructed jet can not be matched at parton level are shown in right panel. The results are based on a PYTHIA 6 $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $ sample. |
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Additional Figure 1-a:
Dijet invariant mass spectrum ($ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $) obtained by using different algorithms in the pairing of the jets in each event: distance-based ($\min\Delta R_{\mathrm{jj}}$), $ {p_{\mathrm {T}}} $-based (leading $ {p_{\mathrm {T}}} $), and by minimizing the distance to the W boson mass $ m_{\mathrm{W}} $ ($\mathrm{min}( | {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} -m_\mathrm{W} | )$). Pairs fully matched to $\mathrm{W} \rightarrow \mathrm{q} \mathrm{\bar{q}} $ decays are shown. The results are based on a PYTHIA 6 $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $ sample. |
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Additional Figure 1-b:
Dijet invariant mass spectrum ($ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $) obtained by using different algorithms in the pairing of the jets in each event: distance-based ($\min\Delta R_{\mathrm{jj}}$), $ {p_{\mathrm {T}}} $-based (leading $ {p_{\mathrm {T}}} $), and by minimizing the distance to the W boson mass $ m_{\mathrm{W}} $ ($\mathrm{min}( | {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} -m_\mathrm{W} | )$). Pairs where at least one reconstructed jet can not be matched at parton level are shown. The results are based on a PYTHIA 6 $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $ sample. |
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Additional Figure 2:
Jet energy scale for jets in simulated $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $ events passing the analysis selection in the $\mu $+jets channel. Jet energy scale is shown for various selection of the summed transverse energy in the forward calorimeters ($\rm {E}_{\rm {HF}}$) in the Pb-going direction which is a measure of the uncorrelated underlying event produced in pPb collisions. Reconstructed jets overlapping with the isolated muon are excluded. |
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Additional Figure 3:
Dijet invariant mass ($ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $) distributions in the 0 (left), 1 (center), and 2 (right) b-tagged jet categories after the complete event selection. In the upper panels the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multijets) contribution is estimated from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than 20 GeV. The bottom panels display the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 3-a:
Dijet invariant mass ($ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $) distribution in the 0 b-tagged jet category after the complete event selection. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multijets) contribution is estimated from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than 20 GeV. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 3-b:
Dijet invariant mass ($ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $) distribution in the 1 b-tagged jet category after the complete event selection. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multijets) contribution is estimated from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than 20 GeV. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 3-c:
Dijet invariant mass ($ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $) distribution in the 2 b-tagged jet category after the complete event selection. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multijets) contribution is estimated from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than 20 GeV. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 4:
Hadronic top mass ($ {m_\text {top}} $) distributions in the 0 (left), 1 (center), and 2 (right) b-tagged jet categories after all selections. In the upper panels the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multiijets) contribution is estimated from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than $20 GeV $. The bottom panels display the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 4-a:
Hadronic top mass ($ {m_\text {top}} $) distributions in the 0 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multiijets) contribution is estimated from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than $20 GeV $. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 4-b:
Hadronic top mass ($ {m_\text {top}} $) distributions in the 1 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multiijets) contribution is estimated from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than $20 GeV $. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 4-c:
Hadronic top mass ($ {m_\text {top}} $) distributions in the 2 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ {\mathrm{t} {}\mathrm{\bar{t}}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multiijets) contribution is estimated from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than $20 GeV $. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 5:
Top mass variable reconstructed from the isolated charged lepton, the b jet not associated to the hadronic top decay and the neutrino - $m_{\ell\nu \mathrm{b}}$. The reconstructed missing transverse momentum vector is assumed to correspond to the $ p_{\mathrm{T}} $ of the neutrino, being the momentum in the longitudinal plane reconstructed from the four-momentum conservation in the $ \mathrm{W}\rightarrow\ell\nu $ decay, assuming the world average W mass. The $m_{\ell\nu \mathrm{b}}$ distributions are shown for the 0 (left), 1 (center), and 2 (right) b-tagged jet categories after all selections. In the upper panels the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ \mathrm{t\bar{t}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multijets) contribution is estimated from and from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than 20 GeV. The bottom panels display the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 5-a:
Top mass variable reconstructed from the isolated charged lepton, the b jet not associated to the hadronic top decay and the neutrino - $m_{\ell\nu \mathrm{b}}$. The reconstructed missing transverse momentum vector is assumed to correspond to the $ p_{\mathrm{T}} $ of the neutrino, being the momentum in the longitudinal plane reconstructed from the four-momentum conservation in the $ \mathrm{W}\rightarrow\ell\nu $ decay, assuming the world average W mass. The $m_{\ell\nu \mathrm{b}}$ distributions are shown for the 0 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ \mathrm{t\bar{t}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multijets) contribution is estimated from and from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than 20 GeV. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 5-b:
Top mass variable reconstructed from the isolated charged lepton, the b jet not associated to the hadronic top decay and the neutrino - $m_{\ell\nu \mathrm{b}}$. The reconstructed missing transverse momentum vector is assumed to correspond to the $ p_{\mathrm{T}} $ of the neutrino, being the momentum in the longitudinal plane reconstructed from the four-momentum conservation in the $ \mathrm{W}\rightarrow\ell\nu $ decay, assuming the world average W mass. The $m_{\ell\nu \mathrm{b}}$ distributions are shown for the 1 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ \mathrm{t\bar{t}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multijets) contribution is estimated from and from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than 20 GeV. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 5-c:
Top mass variable reconstructed from the isolated charged lepton, the b jet not associated to the hadronic top decay and the neutrino - $m_{\ell\nu \mathrm{b}}$. The reconstructed missing transverse momentum vector is assumed to correspond to the $ p_{\mathrm{T}} $ of the neutrino, being the momentum in the longitudinal plane reconstructed from the four-momentum conservation in the $ \mathrm{W}\rightarrow\ell\nu $ decay, assuming the world average W mass. The $m_{\ell\nu \mathrm{b}}$ distributions are shown for the 2 b-tagged jet categories after all selections. In the upper panel the reconstructed data are compared to the stacked expected contributions from signal and the main background processes. The $ \mathrm{t\bar{t}} $, W+jets, and Drell-Yan (DY) processes are simulated with PYTHIA 6 (v.6.424, tune Z2*) and normalized to the expected cross sections and integrated luminosity. The simulations including a mixture of pp and pn interactions corresponding to their ratio in pPb collisions. The QCD multijet (Multijets) contribution is estimated from and from data using a control region where the muon (electron) candidate fails the isolation (identification) requirements used in the selection of the signal. The normalization is performed using events with missing transverse momentum less than 20 GeV. The bottom panel displays the ratio between the data and the expectations. The shaded band represents the relative uncertainty due to the statistics in the simulated samples and in the estimate of the normalization of the QCD multijet background. |
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Additional Figure 6:
Results of the fits to the invariant mass distributions of the W candidate, $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $, in the electron (top) and muon (bottom) channels. From left to right the distributions correspond to events with 0, 1 or at least two b-tagged jets. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 6-a:
Results of the fits to the invariant mass distributions of the W candidate, $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $, in the electron channel. The distribution corresponds to events with 0 b-tagged jet. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 6-b:
Results of the fits to the invariant mass distributions of the W candidate, $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $, in the electron channel. The distribution corresponds to events with 1 b-tagged jet. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 6-c:
Results of the fits to the invariant mass distributions of the W candidate, $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $, in the electron channel. The distribution corresponds to events with at least two b-tagged jets. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 6-d:
Results of the fits to the invariant mass distributions of the W candidate, $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $, in the muon channel. The distribution corresponds to events with 0 b-tagged jet. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 6-e:
Results of the fits to the invariant mass distributions of the W candidate, $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $, in the muon channel. The distribution corresponds to events with 1 b-tagged jet. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 6-f:
Results of the fits to the invariant mass distributions of the W candidate, $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $, in the muon channel. The distribution corresponds to events with at least two b-tagged jets. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 7:
Invariant mass distributions, $ {m_\text {top}} $, of the $\mathrm{t} \rightarrow {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates in the 0 (left), 1 (center), and 2 (right) b-tagged jet categories after all selections. The top (bottom) plots correspond to the electron (muon) channel. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $ fit. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 7-a:
Invariant mass distribution, $ {m_\text {top}} $, of the $\mathrm{t} \rightarrow {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates in the 0 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The plot corresponds to the electron channel. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $ fit. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 7-b:
Invariant mass distribution, $ {m_\text {top}} $, of the $\mathrm{t} \rightarrow {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates in the 1 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The plot corresponds to the electron channel. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $ fit. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 7-c:
Invariant mass distribution, $ {m_\text {top}} $, of the $\mathrm{t} \rightarrow {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates in the 2 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The plot corresponds to the electron channel. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $ fit. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 7-d:
Invariant mass distribution, $ {m_\text {top}} $, of the $\mathrm{t} \rightarrow {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates in the 0 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The plot corresponds to the muon channel. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $ fit. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 7-e:
Invariant mass distribution, $ {m_\text {top}} $, of the $\mathrm{t} \rightarrow {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates in the 1 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The plot corresponds to the muon channel. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $ fit. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 7-f:
Invariant mass distribution, $ {m_\text {top}} $, of the $\mathrm{t} \rightarrow {\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}} \mathrm{b} $ candidates in the 2 b-tagged jet category after all selections. The plot corresponds to the muon channel. All signal and background parameters are kept fixed to the outcome of the $ {m_{{\mathrm {j} \mathrm {j}^{\prime}}}} $ fit. The red and orange areas correspond to the signal simulation (correct and wrong assignments, respectively) while the blue one corresponds to the estimated non-top background contributions. The error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties. |
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Additional Figure 8:
Profile likelihood ratio distribution from pseudo-data generated from the background-only model. The value of the test statistic in data is also indicated by the black arrow. Dashed lines show the approximate location of the expected test statistic value, based on asymptotic formulae, for various z-values. |
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Additional Figure 8-a:
The observed variation of the likelihood as a function of the signal strength. The two horizontal lines represent the values in the profile likelihood that are used to determine the 68% and 95% confidence level intervals for the signal strength. |
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Additional Figure 8-b:
Profile likelihood ratio distribution from pseudo-data generated from the background-only model. The value of the test statistic in data is also indicated by the black arrow. Dashed lines show the approximate location of the expected test statistic value, based on asymptotic formulae, for various z-values. |
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Additional Figure 9:
Top quark pair production cross section in pp and pPb collisions collisions as a function of the center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair; the CMS results at different center-of-mass energies in the dilepton and $\ell $+jets channels. The measurements are compared to the NNLO+NNLL theory predictions. |
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