Speaker
Andrew Brinkerhoff
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Description
New measurements of top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson are presented, using 19.5 fb−1 of 8 TeV pp collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Final states with opposite-sign, same-sign, three, and four charged leptons plus b-tagged jets are examined. Signal ttW and ttZ events are identified by reconstructing the top quark pair, yielding the most sensitive and precise measurements of these processes to date. New limits are also placed on five anomalous dimension-six operators which would affect the ttW and ttZ cross sections.
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Primary authors
Andrew Brinkerhoff
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Anna Elizabeth Woodard
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Co-authors
Charles Nicholas Mueller
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Geoffrey Nathan Smith
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Kevin Patrick Lannon
(University of Notre Dame (US))
