Observation of top quark production in association with a Z boson at CMS

by Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))

Tuesday 4 Dec 2018, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Data collected during LHC Run 2 open the window to increasingly rare processes of top quark production. Furthermore, new analysis techniques lead to large improvements in sensitivity. We report the first observation of the production of a single top quark with a Z boson (tZq) in final states with three leptons, based on data collected by the CMS experiment in the years 2016 and 2017 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The measured cross section is compatible with standard model predictions. The presentation will also include further recent CMS results on top physics.

LHCSeminar04.12.pdf

LPCCSeminar_Dobur.pdf

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