[PDF] Top 20 Search for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a single top quark in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=8 $ TeV

... discovery of a Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2012 [1–3] opened a new field for exploration in particle ...physics. The Higgs boson was ... See full document

... A search for new phenomena using events with two oppo- sitely charged electrons or muons, at least five jets, with at least one b-tagged jet, and low missing transverse momentum has been ... See full document

... testing the SM predictions at the electroweak scale, associated tW production is of interest because of its sensitivity to non-SM couplings of the Wtb vertex ... See full document

... In the SM, a top quark decays almost exclusively into a b quark and a W ...boson. In this mea- surement we focus on tt events, where one of the W bosons from ... See full document

... a search for singly produced top quarks in association with significant missing energy, cor- responding to the associated production of one or sev- eral undetected ... See full document

... L.A.M. Wiik-Fuchs 21 , A. Wildauer 101 , H.G. Wilkens 30 , H.H. Williams 122 , S. Williams 107 , C. Willis 90 , S. Willocq 86 , A. Wilson 89 , J.A. Wilson 18 , I. Wingerter-Seez 5 , F. Winklmeier 116 , B.T. ... See full document

... tt production and signal MC [34]. The nominal jet energy corrections created for use with AK jets are applied in the ...analysis. The ± 1σ uncertainties in jet energy ... See full document

... t production, which is simulated at NLO using powheg v2 [17–20] .... The events com- ing from Drell–Yan (qq → Z / γ ∗ →  +  − , with  = e or μ ) + jets and W boson + jets ... 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 at other CMS ... See full document

... D. Abbaneo, E. Auffray, G. Auzinger, M. Bachtis, P. Baillon, A.H. Ball, D. Barney, A. Benaglia, J. Bendavid, L. Benhabib, J.F. Benitez, G.M. Berruti, P. Bloch, A. Bocci, A. Bonato, C. Botta, H. Breuker, T. Camporesi, G. ... See full document

... sets of variables retained as input to the BDT are reported in Table ...chosen with a quantitative assessment of the discriminating power of each variable, these rep- ... 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 and at other CMS ... See full document

... Poland; the Fundac¸˜ao para a Ciˆencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic ... See full document

... and the modeling of pileup are propagated to the uncertainties in the sig- nal and SM background ...expectations. The uncertainty in modeling the pileup is esti- ... See full document

... clusters of crystals in the ECAL with significant en- ergy deposits ...recover the energy from electron bremsstrahlung and photons converting in the ...tracker. In ... See full document

... from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Re- search Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the ...Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt ... See full document

... this search. Super- symmetry (SUSY) [7, 8] is an attractive extension of the SM because it can resolve the hierarchy problem without unnatural fine-tuning, if the masses ... 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 and at other CMS ... See full document

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

... background with each of the three classes of functions of different ...average, the signal yield extracted from the distributions using a signal plus background fit will ... See full document