[PDF] Top 20 Search for the Higgs boson decaying to two muons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV

... S. Abdullin, M. Albrow, M. Alyari, G. Apollinari, A. Apresyan, A. Apyan, S. Banerjee, L.A.T. Bauerdick, A. Beretvas, J. Berryhill, P.C. Bhat, G. Bolla † , K. Burkett, J.N. Butler, A. Canepa, G.B. Cerati, ... See full document

... lifetimes. The next-to-leading- order cross sections for these processes, and their uncertainties, are taken from ...34]. The limits are calculated with the CL S technique [35, 36], ... See full document

... search. The photon misidentification rate is measured directly from data using a data set col- lected using a single photon ...trigger. To avoid trigger biases, the events must contain ... See full document

... shows the distribution of the invariant mass of the three jets before requiring their invariant mass to be less than 250 GeV, in events with one b-tagged ...of the multijet ... 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

... method to suppress the multijet background is b tag- ging: since a true H → bb jet contains two b hadrons, the H jet candidates are identified using the dedicated “double-b tagger” al- ... 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 departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS ... See full document

... All the remaining processes are estimated from MC simulation, corrected for data/MC scale factors and pileup distribution, using NLO cross sections where ...available. The “tight-to-loose” method is ... See full document

... of the standard model ...referred to as W  [1] ...fraction to the third generation of fermions. Searches for a W  boson de- caying to a tau lepton and neutrino have never been ... 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

... LQs decaying exclusively into a top quark and a muon, BðLQ → tμÞ ¼ 1, are excluded at 95% ...up to 1420 GeV, exceeding the best previous limit, obtained from a reinterpretation [36] of a ... See full document

... between the CRs and SR, and thus that the scale factors SF BG CR1 ( central ) are ...purpose to establish the robustness of this expectation. The production of tt events is an important ... See full document

... from the PF candidates using the anti-kT clustering algorithm [ 52 ] with distance parameters of ...jets”). The jet energy scale (JES) is cal- ibrated through correction factors dependent on ... See full document

... from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract ...Union); the Leventis Foun- dation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von ... See full document

... D. Abbaneo, E. Auffray, G. Auzinger, P. Baillon, A.H. Ball, D. Barney, P. Bloch, A. Bocci, C. Botta, T. Camporesi, R. Castello, M. Cepeda, G. Cerminara, Y. Chen, D. d’Enterria, A. Dabrowski, V. Daponte, A. David, M. De ... 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

... Proton-proton collisions producing large missing transverse momentum and a high transverse momentum photon have been investigated to search for new phenomena, using a data set cor- ... See full document

... Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundac¸˜ao para a Ciˆencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of ... 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