[PDF] Top 20 Measurement of the associated production of a single top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ TeV

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator depart- ments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN ... See full document

... K. Nikolopoulos 19 , J.K. Nilsen 120 , P. Nilsson 27 , Y. Ninomiya 158 , A. Nisati 133a , R. Nisius 102 , T. Nobe 158 , M. Nomachi 119 , I. Nomidis 31 , T. Nooney 78 , S. Norberg 114 , M. Nordberg 32 , N. ... See full document

... on the next-to-leading-order (NLO) matrix elements [ 11 , 12 ] with ...for the parton-level hard scattering in t ¯t production, and is interfaced to the H ERWIG ...simulation ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC ...thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS ... See full document

... sample of pp collisions contain- ing events with a vector boson (V) accompanied by one or more jets ...Some of these events involve the production of a vector ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN ... See full document

... samples of W + c candidates are selected from the events with secondary vertices with three or two tracks, in order to increase the size of the samples available for the ... See full document

... distributions of the W+jets back- ground, which comprises contributions from W+heavy flavour jets (Wb ¯b+jets, Wc¯c+jets and Wc+jets) and W+light jets, are taken from samples of ... See full document

... M. Romano 22a,22b , S.M. Romano Saez 37 , E. Romero Adam 170 , N. Rompotis 140 , M. Ronzani 51 , L. Roos 83 , E. Ros 170 , S. Rosati 134a , K. Rosbach 51 , P. Rose 139 , N.-A. Rosien 58 , V. Rossetti 148a,148b , ... See full document

... hadronization and thus presents a unique opportunity to directly probe the properties of color ...determinations of the mass of the top quark have been ... See full document

... to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so ... See full document

... Onderzoek; the Brazilian Funding Agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP); the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ... See full document

... P. Lujan, 155 D. Marlow, 155 T. Medvedeva, 155 M. Mooney, 155 J. Olsen, 155 C. Palmer, 155 P. Piroué, 155 H. Saka, 155 D. Stickland, 155 C. Tully, 155 A. Zuranski, 155 S. Malik, 156 V. E. Barnes, 157 D. Benedetti, ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and ... See full document

... reported of the cross sections at √ s = 7 TeV for the produc- tion of a Z boson with exactly one or at least two b ...to the b-jet ... See full document

... One and only one jet is required to contain a soft muon with p T > 4 GeV and |η| < ...between the ID and MS tracks of the soft muon is ...required. The same set ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC ...thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other ... See full document

... mis-modellings of muon or electron trigger, recon- struction and selection efficiencies in simulation are cor- rected for by scale factors derived from measurements of the efficiency ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN ... See full document