A measurement of the cross section of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in final states with a muon or electron and jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2016. A boosted decision tree is used to separate the tW signal from the dominant tt ¯ background, whilst the subleading W+jets and multijet backgrounds are constrained using data-based estimates. This result is the first observation of the tW process in final states containing a muon or electron and jets, with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations. The cross section is determined to be 89 ± 4 (stat) ± 12 (syst) pb, consistent with the standard model. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Observation of tW production in the single-lepton channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV / Tumasyan A., Adam W., Andrejkovic J.W., Bergauer T., Chatterjee S., Dragicevic M., Escalante Del Valle A., Fruhwirth R., Jeitler M., Krammer N., Lechner L., Liko D., Mikulec I., Paulitsch P., Pitters F.M., Schieck J., Schofbeck R., Spanring M., Templ S., Waltenberger W., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - ELETTRONICO. - 2021:(2021), pp. 0-0. [10.1007/JHEP11(2021)111]

Observation of tW production in the single-lepton channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Ceccarelli R.;Ciulli V.;D'Alessandro R.;Focardi E.;Latino G.;Lenzi P.;Lizzo M.;Seidita R.;
2021

Abstract

A measurement of the cross section of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in final states with a muon or electron and jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2016. A boosted decision tree is used to separate the tW signal from the dominant tt ¯ background, whilst the subleading W+jets and multijet backgrounds are constrained using data-based estimates. This result is the first observation of the tW process in final states containing a muon or electron and jets, with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations. The cross section is determined to be 89 ± 4 (stat) ± 12 (syst) pb, consistent with the standard model. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
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Tumasyan A.; Adam W.; Andrejkovic J.W.; Bergauer T.; Chatterjee S.; Dragicevic M.; Escalante Del Valle A.; Fruhwirth R.; Jeitler M.; Krammer N.; Lechn...espandi
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