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Measurement of top quark pair production in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. / The CMS collaboration.
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T1 - Measurement of top quark pair production in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
AU - The CMS collaboration
AU - Sirunyan, A. M.
AU - Tumasyan, A.
AU - Adam, W.
AU - Ambrogi, F.
AU - Bergauer, T.
AU - Brandstetter, J.
AU - Dragicevic, M.
AU - Erö, J.
AU - Escalante Del Valle, A.
AU - Flechl, M.
AU - Frühwirth, R.
AU - Jeitler, M.
AU - Krammer, N.
AU - Krätschmer, I.
AU - Liko, D.
AU - Madlener, T.
AU - Mikulec, I.
AU - Rad, N.
AU - Schieck, J.
AU - Schöfbeck, R.
AU - Spanring, M.
AU - Spitzbart, D.
AU - Waltenberger, W.
AU - Wulz, C. E.
AU - Zarucki, M.
AU - Drugakov, V.
AU - Mossolov, V.
AU - Suarez Gonzalez, J.
AU - Darwish, M. R.
AU - De Wolf, E. A.
AU - Di Croce, D.
AU - Janssen, X.
AU - Lauwers, J.
AU - Lelek, A.
AU - Pieters, M.
AU - Rejeb Sfar, H.
AU - Van Haevermaet, H.
AU - Van Mechelen, P.
AU - Van Putte, S.
AU - Van Remortel, N.
AU - Blekman, F.
AU - Bols, E. S.
AU - Chhibra, S. S.
AU - D’Hondt, J.
AU - De Clercq, J.
AU - Barnyakov, A.
AU - Blinov, V.
AU - Dimova, T.
AU - Kardapoltsev, L.
AU - Skovpen, Y.
PY - 2020/3/10
Y1 - 2020/3/10
N2 - A measurement of the inclusive cross section of top quark pair production in association with a Z boson using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC is performed. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 77.5 fb−1, collected by the CMS experiment during 2016 and 2017. The measurement is performed using final states containing three or four charged leptons (electrons or muons), and the Z boson is detected through its decay to an oppositely charged lepton pair. The production cross section is measured to be σ(t t ¯ Z) = 0.95 ± 0.05 (stat) ± 0.06 (syst) pb. For the first time, differential cross sections are measured as functions of the transverse momentum of the Z boson and the angular distribution of the negatively charged lepton from the Z boson decay. The most stringent direct limits to date on the anomalous couplings of the top quark to the Z boson are presented, including constraints on the Wilson coefficients in the framework of the standard model effective field theory.
AB - A measurement of the inclusive cross section of top quark pair production in association with a Z boson using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC is performed. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 77.5 fb−1, collected by the CMS experiment during 2016 and 2017. The measurement is performed using final states containing three or four charged leptons (electrons or muons), and the Z boson is detected through its decay to an oppositely charged lepton pair. The production cross section is measured to be σ(t t ¯ Z) = 0.95 ± 0.05 (stat) ± 0.06 (syst) pb. For the first time, differential cross sections are measured as functions of the transverse momentum of the Z boson and the angular distribution of the negatively charged lepton from the Z boson decay. The most stringent direct limits to date on the anomalous couplings of the top quark to the Z boson are presented, including constraints on the Wilson coefficients in the framework of the standard model effective field theory.
KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
KW - Top physics
KW - HELICITY FRACTIONS
KW - ROOT-S=8
KW - JETS
KW - CROSS-SECTION
KW - PLUS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081715381&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)056
DO - 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)056
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081715381
VL - 2020
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1029-8479
IS - 3
M1 - 56
ER -
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