CMS-PAS-TOP-20-002 | ||
Measurement of tW production in the semileptonic channel in pp collisions at √s= 13 TeV | ||
CMS Collaboration | ||
March 2021 | ||
Abstract: A measurement of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in the final states with an electron or muon and jets using pp collisions with √s= 13 TeV collected by the CMS detector at the CERN LHC is presented. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. This result is the first observation of the tW process in the final states containing a muon or electron and jets, with an observed significance clearly exceeding 5 standard deviations. The measured signal strength is μ= 1.24 ± 0.18, consistent with unity. The inclusive cross section is determined to be 89 ± 4 (stat) ± 12 (syst) pb. | ||
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These preliminary results are superseded in this paper, Submitted to JHEP. The superseded preliminary plots can be found here. |
Figures | |
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Figure 1:
Leading-order Feynman diagrams for single top quark production in the tW mode. The charge-conjugate modes are implicitly included. |
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Figure 2:
Feynman diagrams for tW single top quark production at next-to-leading order that are removed from the signal definition in the DR scheme. The charge-conjugate modes are implicitly included. |
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Figure 2-a:
Feynman diagrams for tW single top quark production at next-to-leading order that are removed from the signal definition in the DR scheme. The charge-conjugate modes are implicitly included. |
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Figure 2-b:
Feynman diagrams for tW single top quark production at next-to-leading order that are removed from the signal definition in the DR scheme. The charge-conjugate modes are implicitly included. |
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Figure 2-c:
Feynman diagrams for tW single top quark production at next-to-leading order that are removed from the signal definition in the DR scheme. The charge-conjugate modes are implicitly included. |
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Figure 3:
BDT discriminant in the signal region for the muon (left) and electron (right) channels for the (from top to bottom) 3j, 2j and 4j regions. The lower panel shows the ratio of observed data to the prediction for signal and background. In both panels the hatched regions show the total uncertainty in each bin. The signal and backgrounds have been scaled with the results of the fit. |
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Figure 3-a:
BDT discriminant in the signal region for the muon (left) and electron (right) channels for the (from top to bottom) 3j, 2j and 4j regions. The lower panel shows the ratio of observed data to the prediction for signal and background. In both panels the hatched regions show the total uncertainty in each bin. The signal and backgrounds have been scaled with the results of the fit. |
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Figure 3-b:
BDT discriminant in the signal region for the muon (left) and electron (right) channels for the (from top to bottom) 3j, 2j and 4j regions. The lower panel shows the ratio of observed data to the prediction for signal and background. In both panels the hatched regions show the total uncertainty in each bin. The signal and backgrounds have been scaled with the results of the fit. |
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Figure 3-c:
BDT discriminant in the signal region for the muon (left) and electron (right) channels for the (from top to bottom) 3j, 2j and 4j regions. The lower panel shows the ratio of observed data to the prediction for signal and background. In both panels the hatched regions show the total uncertainty in each bin. The signal and backgrounds have been scaled with the results of the fit. |
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Figure 3-d:
BDT discriminant in the signal region for the muon (left) and electron (right) channels for the (from top to bottom) 3j, 2j and 4j regions. The lower panel shows the ratio of observed data to the prediction for signal and background. In both panels the hatched regions show the total uncertainty in each bin. The signal and backgrounds have been scaled with the results of the fit. |
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Figure 3-e:
BDT discriminant in the signal region for the muon (left) and electron (right) channels for the (from top to bottom) 3j, 2j and 4j regions. The lower panel shows the ratio of observed data to the prediction for signal and background. In both panels the hatched regions show the total uncertainty in each bin. The signal and backgrounds have been scaled with the results of the fit. |
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Figure 3-f:
BDT discriminant in the signal region for the muon (left) and electron (right) channels for the (from top to bottom) 3j, 2j and 4j regions. The lower panel shows the ratio of observed data to the prediction for signal and background. In both panels the hatched regions show the total uncertainty in each bin. The signal and backgrounds have been scaled with the results of the fit. |
Tables | |
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Table 1:
The total number of events passing event selection in each defined jet topology region for the analysis and their associated statistical uncertainties. The event yields are given for the tW signal and all major backgrounds for both the muon (upper) and electron (lower) channels. The estimations of QCD multijet and W+jets backgrounds include data-based estimates. |
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Table 2:
Descriptions of the variables used to train and evaluate the BDT, ranked in order of importance in the final result. The same variables are used in both muon and electron channels. |
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Table 3:
Uncertainty in the signal strength from each source of systematic uncertainty for the combination of electron and muon channels. The table is divided between normalization, experimental and theoretical uncertainties. Uncertainties arising from the limited size of the MC samples are included in the statistical uncertainty. |
Summary |
In this note, the first experimental investigation into the tW process using the semileptonic channel by the CMS Collaboration is presented. The inclusive cross section is extracted using a binned likelihood fit of the discriminant from a multivariate analysis designed to separate the signal from the dominant tˉt background. The analysis is performed using pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity of L. This result is the first observation of the tW process in the final states containing a muon or electron and jets, with an observed significance clearly exceeding 5 standard deviations. The measured signal strength is μ= 1.24 ± 0.18, consistent with unity. The inclusive cross section is determined to be 89 ± 4 (stat) ± 12 (syst) pb. |
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