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

... 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

... presents the search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark (tHq), using data collected in ... See full document

... acceptable in a given category if its pull is less than ...generated with all of the other functional families. With this requirement, the error on the frequentist ... See full document

... V. Zhukov, 34 ,f M. Ata, 35 J. Caudron, 35 E. Dietz-Laursonn, 35 D. Duchardt, 35 M. Erdmann, 35 R. Fischer, 35 A. Güth, 35 T. Hebbeker, 35 C. Heidemann, 35 K. Hoepfner, 35 D. Klingebiel, 35 S. Knutzen, 35 P. ... See full document

... acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agen- cies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS ... 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

... distributions of the Higgs boson candidate in the four WH final states combined ...together. The uncertainties include both statistical and systematic components. ... 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

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent per- formance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS ... See full document

... (DY) production is the most important background for the `` ∗ → ``γ channels, mostly originating from production of a photon in association with a Z, which has a very ... See full document

... for the systematic uncertainties in the integrated luminosity and in the signal efficiency are constrained with log-normal ...types of nuisance parameters for the ... See full document

... a search for new decaying massive particles whose presence is inferred from an imbalance in transverse momentum and which are produced in association with a single top ... See full document

... on the final state, ranging from 76 to 99%. The contributions of backgrounds other than tt events are subtracted from the data CR1s using ...simulation. The scale factors SF tt CR1 are ... See full document

... DY production. The contamination from W+jets events involves two nonprompt leptons and is found to be ...Diboson production is dominated by the WZ sample, which is split into two parts: ... See full document

... distinguish the signal from the SM backgrounds. To achieve the best discriminating power, a multivariate classification, based on boosted decision trees (BDT) [ 40 , 41 ], is ...for the tuγ ... See full document

... from the individual fits. A similar technique is used to in- terpolate the signal normalization to intermediate mass points; the parameterization leads to yield uncertainties for the ... 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

... operates at one of the four interaction points of the ...magnet with an internal diam- eter of 6 m. The following subdetectors are found within the magnet ... See full document

... Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and ... See full document

... corrections in jet en- ergy scale and ...changes in the jet energy scale and resolution correction factors contribute uncertainties of 4% and 3% in the estimate of ... See full document