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Inclusive and differential cross-sections measurements in the single top tW e-mu channel with CMS

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2021-12-17 v1

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 ttˉ\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.

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@article{arxiv.2112.08976,
  title  = {Inclusive and differential cross-sections measurements in the single top tW e-mu channel with CMS},
  author = {Alejandro Soto Rodríguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.08976},
  year   = {2021}
}

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YSF plenary talk at the 14th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (videoconference)