Measurement of the production cross section for single top quarks in association with W bosons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

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Abstract

A measurement is presented of the associated production of a single top quark and a W boson in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV by the CMS Collaboration at the CERN LHC. The data collected corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The measurement is performed using events with one electron and one muon in the final state along with at least one jet originated from a bottom quark. A multivariate discriminant, exploiting the kinematic properties of the events, is used to separate the signal from the dominant t t ¯ background. The measured cross section of 63.1 ± 1.8(stat) ± 6.4(syst) ± 2.1 (lumi) pb is in agreement with the standard model expectation.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original languageEnglish
Article number117
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2018
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2018

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Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • Top physics

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