Measurement of inclusive and differential cross sections for single top quark production in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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Measurements of the inclusive and normalised differential cross sections 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. The data used were recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC during 2016–2018, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb − 1 . Events containing one electron and one muon in the final state are analysed. For the inclusive measurement, a multivariate discriminant, e ...
Measurements of the inclusive and normalised differential cross sections 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. The data used were recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC during 2016–2018, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb − 1 . Events containing one electron and one muon 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 ¯t background. A cross section of 79 . 2 ± 0 .9 (stat) +7 . 7 − 8 . 0 (syst) ± 1 .2 (lumi) pb is obtained, consistent with the predictions of the standard model. For the differential measurements, a fiducial region is defined according to the detector acceptance, and the requirement of exactly one jet coming from the fragmentation of a bottom quark. The resulting distributions are unfolded to particle level and agree with the predictions at next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. ...
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The journal of high energy physics. Trieste. No. 7 (July 2023), 046, 48 p.
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